For since in nature the number of species is fixed and determined, since ‘God on the sixth day rested from all his labour’, that is,…
Published 19 Sep 2020
John Ray on species fixity and race
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Category: Quotes
Quotes I find in various sources as I trawl for ideas to steal.
Published 7 Mar 2018
In defence of taxonomists [plus รงa change]
I sympathize with the physiologist or ecologist, who after he has written a luminous paper on a Cratoegus or Viola, or Rosa, or Opuntia, endeavors…
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Published 18 Oct 2014
A nineteenth century view on classification
The principle upon which I understand the Natural System of Botany to be founded is, that the affinities of plants may be determined by a…
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Published 11 Dec 2012
Evolution quotes: The English and theories
‘What I really like about the English is that they don’t have theories. No Englishman would ever have said, “I think, therefore I am.” Although…
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Published 22 Oct 2012
Evolution quotes: Social Darwinism by Haldane
The actual application of Darwinism to contemporary capitalist society is quite clear. The poor leave more offspring behind them in each generation than the rich.…
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Published 12 May 2012
Evolution quotes: Theories are not the whole of science
I opened Structure of Scientific Theories asserting that the “most central or important” problem in philosophy of science is “the nature and structure of theories…
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Published 9 May 2012
Evolution quotes: Socialism
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single…
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Published 4 May 2012
Evolution quotes: Arguments
Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King…
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Published 2 Apr 2012
Evolution Quotes: Twain on inference about the past
Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and “let on” to prove what had occurred in the remote past by…
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Published 15 Feb 2012
Quote: Nominalism
Nominalism has often been misunderstood in the past, perhaps because of the associations of the word itself. Properly conceived, nominalism has nothing to do with…
