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John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller, born on July 8, 1839, and died on May 23, 1937, was one of the most famous industrialists and philanthropists in American history. He was renowned for his immense influence in the oil industry. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil, which later became one of the largest oil companies in the world. His business strategies and philanthropic endeavors had a profound impact on the economic and social development of the United States in the 20th century. more

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“In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory.”

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Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
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“One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning popular and superficial to be equally damning adjectives. This is related to the current tendency in the biological sciences to label every subdivision of science with a name derived from the Greek. "Ecology" is erudite and profound; while "natural history" is popular and superficial. Though, as far as I can see, both labels apply to just about the same package of goods.”

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Author:Marston Bates
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“The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities.”

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Book:The Nature of Natural History
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