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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

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American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
Edward R. Murrow

William Plane Pycraft

William Plane Pycraft

Born: 1868
Died: 1942 (aged 74)
Bio: William Plane Pycraft was an English osteologist and zoologist.
Known for:
  1. The courtship of animals (1913)
  2. A history of birds (1908)
  3. Birds in Flight (1922)
  4. Bird-life (1899)

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