Scientific Collector

Charles Darwin

Science

1758–1778

"It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. —"

🇺🇸Theodore Roosevelt

Politics

1858–1919

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."

🇺🇸John Steinbeck

Literature

1902–1968

"If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces......So it would; so it will ... then the pieces will be put together again by such as destroyed it."

John Muir

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul."

🇬🇧Douglas Mawson

Science

1882–1958

"If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance."

🇺🇸Hugh Iltis

Science

1925–2016

"The general biological ignorance bodes ill for democratic decisions on environmental issues."

🇺🇸Percival Lowell

Mathematics

1855–1916

"Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?"

🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"“Only that man... who is deluded, who is desirous of acquiring profits, who has neither deliberated upon his own religion, nor looked at the defects in Christianity, would become a Christian."

🇸🇪Carl Linnaeus

Science

1707–1778

"The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone."

🇯🇵Hirohito

Economics

1901–1989

"when there is no other option than to lose our own people, the best option is to fight to the very end."

🇺🇸John James Audubon

Science

Naturalism

1785–1851

"International celebration of Audubon through stamps"

🇬🇧Gideon Mantell

Science

1790–1852

"Upon fixing my residence at Lewes, I resolved to devote my leisure moments to the investigation of the "Organic remains of a former world"..."

🇺🇸George Washington Carver

Technology

1864–1943

"The Life of George Washington Carver: In His Own Words, Eagle Forum University."

"“...from its name, Ramgar, I am inclined to support that it was a part of the building actually erected by Rama."

🇬🇧Alfred Russel Wallace

Science

1823–1913

"Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species."

🇺🇸Alfred Kinsey

Literature

1894–1956

"At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraceptives."

🇫🇷Georges Cuvier

Science

1769–1832

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."

🇺🇸Ed Ricketts

Science

1897–1948

"The first director of Hopkins didn’t get along with him so Ricketts would have to wait until he was out of town to sneak into the library with the help of some sympathetic professor."

🇺🇸Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Politics

1823–1911

"To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country."

Gregor Mendel

Science

1822–1884

"1913 Catholic Encyclopedia entry, "Mendel, Mendelism"

🇺🇸James Dwight Dana

Science

1813–1895

"The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word."

🇬🇧Gerald Durrell

Science

"Right in the Heart of the African Jungle a small white man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the friend of all animals."

🇺🇸Louis Agassiz

Science

1807–1873

"The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal."