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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists. -- Alvin Plantinga
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists. -- Richard Conniff
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. -- Trofim Lysenko
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists. -- George Bernard Shaw
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. -- Jonathan Swift
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. -- Edward Forbes
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it. -- Edward Forbes
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's. -- Donald C. Peattie
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television. -- Gerald Durrell
God created animals. And they're loving; they're beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don't find my interest in animals weird or strange at all. -- Michael Jackson
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

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