Quotes of: Naturalist Keyword

To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.

William Beebe

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose. The claim is that the new paradigm can actually influence — legitimately — our choice of basic values in the first pl...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Douglas Sirk

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

Greg Graffin

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildf...

Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

Dr. Stephen Maturin: Mr Blakeney, it would appear that you have the makings of a naturalist. Blakeney: Well, sir, perhaps I could combine them to be a sort of... fighting naturalist, like you, sir. Dr. Stephen Maturin: They don't combine too well, I ...

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

Trofim Lysenko

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

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

Henry Selick

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Jane Goodall

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Adam Brody

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

David Naughton

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

Greg Graffin

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

Pedro Almodovar

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Phillip E. Johnson

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

Richard Owen

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

Howard Barker

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made ...

The Light of Day (Volume 11); Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View

The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.

Lucy Griffiths

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Simon Beaufoy