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“……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance”

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William Beebe

William Beebe was a renowned ornithologist, born on July 29, 1877, and died on June 4, 1962. His research in the field of ornithology was extensive, making significant contributions to the ecology and behavior of birds. more

“That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.”

Science Biology Spirtuality

Book:How We Live

Source: How We Live

“The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.”

Science Catholicism Western Civilization

Author:Thomas E. Woods Jr.

“Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.”

Science Catholicism Western Civilization

Author:Thomas E. Woods Jr.

“A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty years of observation. It allows for predictions and states, in short, that when a female bear bears three cubs, and they aren't all male or female, it will invariably be either two males and a female, or two females and a male.”

Humor Science

Author:Wolfgang Klein

“Si l'organisme vivant est un system hiérarchisé dont le niveau d'organisation est au-dessus du niveau chimique, il est alors évident qu'il doit être étudié à tous les niveaux et qu'une recherche limitée à l'un d'entre eux (niveaux chimique par exemple) ne peut remplacer celle effectuée aux niveau supérieurs.”

Earth Science Ecology J H Woodger

Author:J.H. Woodger

“Il faut regarder la configuration ensemble pour déterminer le comportement des parties et non l'inverse.”

Science Ecology Paul Weiss

Author:Paul Weiss

“Il nous faut partir d'une conception d'ensemble de l'organisme en tant qu'une entité fondamentale de la biologie, puis comprendre comment celui-ci se divise en parties qui respectent son ordre intrinsèque - pour donner un organisme harmonieusement intégré en dépit de sa complexité.”

Science Biology Ecology Brian Goodwin

Author:Brian Goodwin

“Dire .. que l'homme est constitué de certains éléments chimiques est une description ne convenant qu'à ceux dont l'intention est de l'utiliser comme engrais.”

Science Biology Edmund W Sinnott

Author:Edmund W. Sinnott

“So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts to render it, but ultimately bearing only our own reflections; and the impenetrable world, the plumbless dark full of latent particles, the primordial cauldron which, like a mother, gives us our being but is a lifelong riddle.”

Art Science

Book:Wild Ride: Earthquakes, Sneezes and Other Thrills

Source: Wild Ride: Earthquakes, Sneezes and Other Thrills

“Understanding is ignoring the details”

Science

Book:Nature at a Glance: How science looks at nature and what incredible things it discovers there

Source: Nature at a Glance: How science looks at nature and what incredible things it discovers there

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