Naturalist famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
-- Phillip E. Johnson

#Get Away #Naturalist #Hostage
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
-- Phillip E. Johnson

#Example #Cosmic #Naturalist
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.
-- Richard Conniff

#Nature #Medical #Naturalist
To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
-- William Beebe

#Kings #Science #Naturalist
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.
-- Paul Sears

#Decline #Naturalist #Parallels
I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.
-- Tim Crane

#Thinking #Term #Naturalist
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.
-- Tim Crane

#Views #Metaphysical #Naturalist
I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.
-- Jeff Corwin

#Naturalist #Biologist #Core

Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.
Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.
Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.
I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.
I've just come to realize I'm going to share my point of view. Some people won't like me for it. Some people will. I will work every day to be as honest as I can because I do believe that we're all trying to get to the same place. But various people have tricked us into believing that we are not. And I see America going into that space.
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.