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“In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.”

Thinking Believe May Reason Facts I Believe Forget Cutting Taste Mouths Stones Fishes Chinese Staring Reason Why Scholar Surgeons Don't Trust Liver Frying Botany Zoology Frying Pans

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.”

Thinking Should Use Realizing Pleasure Wonder Plant Ashamed Cows Engineering Botany

Author:Albert Einstein

“When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.”

Men Art Dies Culture Statues Botany

Author:Chris Marker

“Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.”

America Names Lost Mines Occasions Gentleman Addresses Spares Geography Punctuation Botany Chronology Previous Work

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.”

Ifs Acting Hell Soothing Botany

Author:Mara Wilson

“Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.”

President Valuable Botany

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.”

Source: The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.”

Men Giving Shows Humanity Force Modern Flower Series Theology Mechanism Science And Religion Lectures Modern Science Botany

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays