Zoology

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. —"

🇬🇧Richard Dawkins

Science

atheism

b. 1941

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

🇬🇧Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Science

1886–1959

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised."

Thomas Henry Huxley

Science

1825–1895

"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."

"Grosseteste's contribution was to emphasize the importance of falsification in the search for true causes and to develop the method of verification and falsification into a systematic method of experimental procedure."

🇺🇸Edwin Grant Conklin

Science

1863–1952

"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory."

Richard Owen

Science

1804–1892

"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."

🇺🇸David G. Haskell

Literature

b. 1950

"We can find our way back to thoughtful management for the long-term well-being of both humans and forests. But finding this way will require some quiet and humility."

🇺🇸Diana Gabaldon

Literature

b. 1952

"Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done."

🇺🇸Frans de Waal

Literature

1948–2024

"The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures."

🇬🇧Desmond Morris

Art

Surrealism

b. 1928

"The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

🇫🇷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."

🇬🇧Peter Medawar

Science

1915–1987

"The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?"

🇬🇧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."