Quotes About Zoology

#1. History is the zoology of the human race.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

Yann Martel

#3. Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.

James Joyce

#5. A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#6. The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."
"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

Nicolas Cage

#9. After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

Karl Von Frisch

#10. The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

Charles Darwin

#12. ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#14. It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

Gilbert White

#15. I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology Honours batch 92 - was 18, and I was often treated like a kid.

Anurag Kashyap

#16. What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

Roman Jakobson

#17. The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.

Maria Montessori

#18. As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.

John Gurdon

#19. I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

Steve Jobs

#20. Not until 1902, at an early meeting of the International Congress of Zoology, did naturalists begin at last to show a spirit of compromise and adopt a universal code. Taxonomy

Bill Bryson

#21. A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

Hannah Arendt

#22. Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Bertrand Russell

#23. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

John Lilly

#24. Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.

Will Cuppy

#25. We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Yann Martel

#26. The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

Yann Martel

#27. Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.

Bernard Heuvelmans

#28. Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

Will Cuppy

#29. The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

Alan Hodgkin

#30. There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

Will Cuppy