Top 15 Quotes About Ornithology
#1. No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
Patrice Leconte
#2. The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.
Will Cuppy
#3. What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs.
Paul Krugman
#4. Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Richard Feynman
#5. [Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
Georges Cuvier
#6. Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.
Yuja Wang
#7. Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
Barnett Newman
#8. Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks.
"Ornithology," she replies.
"You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask.
Elena shrugs. "I was being ironic.
Paul Acampora
#10. It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. [I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,
Ross Wetzsteon
#12. Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.
Julia Quinn
#13. There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
#14. Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.
John Cage
#15. Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
Barnett Newman
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