"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Animals, Being, Will

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Animals, Freedom, Responsibility, Parenting

"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."

Alan Price, American Musician

Animals, Being, Needs, Spirit

"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Animals, Intelligence, Comparison, Life

"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Animals, Dogs, Loyalty, Happiness, Love

"Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Animals, Character, Judgment, Cats

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Animals, Love, Cats, Joy, Affection

"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

Animals, Culture, Killing, Man

"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."

Lennart Nilsson, Swedish Photographer

Animals, University

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

Paul Valery, French Poet

Animals, Books, Content, Enemies

"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

Clarence Day, American Author

Animals, Ants, First

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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."

Science

"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."

Science

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."

Power

"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

Evolution

"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Ability

"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."

Mind

"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."

Change

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."

"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

"Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say."

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."

"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."

"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."

"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."

"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."

"The best project is one that asks a novel question."

"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."