Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about William Plane Pycraft
William Plane Pycraft Quotes
1 Sourced Quote
Source
Report...
So long as we insist on regarding biology as a crystallized creed, requiring no more than a possible rectification of some of its tenets, so long shall we continue groping in the dark to get an insight into the mysteries we are professedly trying to solve.
William Plane Pycraft
Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
William Plane Pycraft
Born:
1868
Died:
1942
(aged 74)
Bio:
William Plane Pycraft was an English osteologist and zoologist.
Known for:
The courtship of animals (1913)
A history of birds (1908)
Birds in Flight (1922)
Bird-life (1899)
William Plane Pycraft on Wikipedia
William Plane Pycraft works on Gutenberg Project
William Plane Pycraft works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
British Zoologist Quotes
Zoologist Quotes
19th-century Zoologist Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
