Entomology

🇺🇸Vladimir Nabokov

Literature

modernism

1912–1977

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

🇺🇸May Berenbaum

Education

b. 1953

"Scientific knowledge helps people to understand and appreciate the world and all of its complexities; it’s the best insurance against irrational fear."

🇺🇸Lewis Thomas

Science

1913–1993

"It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life."

Willem Roelofs

Art

Hague School

1822–1897

"There is still some study here for the Dutch landscape, and I believe the best I can do is to stay some time longer."

🇺🇸Theodosius Dobzhansky

Science

1900–1975

"The greatest evolutionist of our century."

James Francis Stephens

Science

1792–1853

"BHL A systematic Catalogue of British insects"

🇫🇷Jean-Henri Fabre

Science

Félibrige

1823–1915

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."