Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
People would rather believe than know.
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.