A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

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Animal Animal Kingdom Come Conceded Down Father Fly History House Including King Kingdom Mother Name Science Universally Us Zoology

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

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

History is the zoology of the human race.

Franz Grillparzer

Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

Albert Goldbarth

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

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

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

Roman Jakobson

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

Nicolas Cage

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Bertrand Russell

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

Simon Greenleaf

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

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Karl von Frisch

First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.

Jake Johnson

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

Jim Hightower

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

Jim Hightower

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.