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“One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.”

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Allen Wheelis, born in 1915 in the United States, was a renowned psychoanalyst. He made significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis with his deep research and extensive clinical experience. more

“Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.”

Men Animal Greater Share Effects Degrees Diversity Function Plant Mere Variety Perceive Fallen Organs Pact

Author:Aristotle

“Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.”

“There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.”

“This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.”

Problem Action Science Individual Animal Virtue Nervous Organs Solidarity Possessing Nervous System

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.”

Universe Animal Known Complicated Complicated Things

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎”

Way Made Form Animal Special Particular Plant Species Atoms Salt Units Dna Aptitude

Book:The Principles of Biology

Source: The Principles of Biology

“Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.”

Knows Should Walks Animal Secret Sea Dog Serious Creatures Cat Madness Mad Ridiculous Peaceful Lions Bark Aversion Lobster Gazelles

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.”

Action Science Animal Objects Spring Weight Senses Impression Clock Wheels

Author:Marin Mersenne

“Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.”

Mean Important Science Mother Learning Importance Mother Nature Saying Thank You

Author:John N. Bahcall

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