Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

- Marston Bates

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology …

- Marston Bates

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less …

- Marston Bates

A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which …

- Marston Bates

Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues…

- Marston Bates

One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"…

- Marston Bates

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billio…

- Marston Bates

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and natu…

- Marston Bates

The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the leve…

- Marston Bates