Best Botanist Quotes

#1. I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet.

Andy Weir

#2. The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Damn it, Jim, I'm a botanist, not a chemist!

Andy Weir

#4. If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist

Enrico Fermi

#5. But in the end, if everything goes to plan, I'll have 92 square meters of crop-able soil. Hell yeah I'm a botanist! Fear my botany powers!

Andy Weir

#6. The botanist was a decent man, but Khassan was in love, and thus capable of infinite hate.

Anthony Marra

#7. The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?"
"Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.

Tove Jansson

#8. Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

Enrico Fermi

#9. A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

Carolus Linnaeus

#10. Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

Hermann Hankel

#11. Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#12. So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

James Gleick

#13. The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

Carl Linnaeus

#15. A chemist may understand the molecular basis of a strawberry. A geneticist may understand the DNA sequences that underlie different varieties of strawberries. A botanist may know the precise soil and water requirements for a strawberry plant to thrive. A yogi knows the strawberry by taking a bite.

Anonymous

#16. I can truly say I had rather be a Mount Vernon than to be attended at the Seat of Government by the Officers of State and the Representatives of every Power in Europe.

George Washington