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The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

— William Beebe On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)

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"These words should be ready for instant use by every honest scientist➖ 'I don't know.'

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These descents of mine beneath the sea seemed to partake of a real cosmic character.

Half Mile Down (1951)

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

The Bird (1906)

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