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Most technical names still have a queer, foreign, pedantic sound, and if we see very many of them in a stretch of print we get frightened off and hastily look for something else to read.
Marston Bates
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If and when the day comes when pure science is once again generally appreciated as a self-justifying intellectual adventure of mankind, then the coleopterists should be able to step forward and claim their share of its glory.
Roy Crowson
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The corridors of power have a strong attraction for even the most devoted investigator, and these corridors seldom lead back to the laboratory.
Kenneth Mellanby
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One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.
Howard Ensign Evans
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