Eugenie Clark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
-- Eugenie Clark

#Men #Credit #Fields
I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements...
-- Eugenie Clark

#Ocean #Use #Movement
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
-- Eugenie Clark

#Men #Long #Growing
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.
-- Eugenie Clark

#Appreciate #Unseen #Use

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

Eugenie Clark famous quotes

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