Donald Putnam Abbott Quote

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


In: Galen Howard Hilgard (ed.), Observing Marine Invertebrates: Drawings from the Laboratory, Author's Preface (p. xvi)


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

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

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

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