"The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them."

“Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.”

“If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say”

“I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.”

“Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.352, Penguin

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.”

Source : William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History: In Two Volumes”, p.443

“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.”

“I've made mistakes in my life for sure.”

“I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.”