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There's no substitute for fine forceps. None.

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You'll be tempted to grouse about the instability of taxonomy: but stability occurs only where people stop thinking and stop working.

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Cultivate a suspicious attitude toward people who do phylogeny.

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Get the experience of looking at fresh things. If you watch live animals, you gain clearer insights in shorter time than you would watching dead animals for much longer.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Donald Putnam Abbott

Donald Putnam Abbott

Born: October 14, 1920
Died: January 18, 1986 (aged 65)
Bio: Donald Putnam Abbott was an invertebrate zoologist and Professor of Biology at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University from 1950 through 1982. He earned his Ph.D. under S.F. Light and Ralph Smith at the University of California, Berkeley.

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