Home / Quotes / Quote by George Schaller

Quote by George Schaller

“For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.”

Quote by George Schaller

Author

George Schaller

George Schaller is a renowned biologist known for his contributions to wildlife conservation and research. Born on May 26, 1933, he has dedicated his career to studying the behavior and ecology of wildlife, particularly large felids in Asia and Africa. more

You May Also Like

“Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!”

World Giving Matter Science Give Me Constructs

Book:Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

“Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.”

World America Science Environmental Dumb Goodbye Good Bye Bushism Funny Bush

Author:George W. Bush

“If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.”

People Ifs World Writing Kind Ends Brain Crazy Serious Fine Lovely Mysterious Release Lazy Rays Articles Fossils Swarms Crazy Things

Author:Carl Zimmer

“In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.”

World Said Matter Earth Science Water Numbers Cases Solutions Myth Instance Indian Prime

Book:Theories of Solutions

Source: Theories of Solutions

“It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.”

“It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.”

Ifs World Mind May Five Six Physics Suits Explanation Interpretation Exegesis

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.”

Thinking World Giving Should May Eye Science Understanding Results Cost Invention Esteem Household Harmonious Plumbing Paving

Book:Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944

Source: Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944

“Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.”

Men World Long Made Born Animal Modern Birth Plant Philosopher Stranger Chemicals Long Ago

Author:Karl Popper

“My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”

World States United United States Revolution Trade West East Impression Introducing Coast Canals West Coast Panama Panama Canal

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

“One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.”

World Giving Has Beens Science Century Materials Prove Achievement Aim Physics Twentieth Century Unattainable Material World Physical Science

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man