Robert H. MacArthur Quote

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for patterns of plants and animal life that can be put on a map.


Geographical Ecology, Introduction (p. 1), Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972


To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for...

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for...

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for...

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for...