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a dictionary of quotations on biology, botany, nature and zoology

selected and arranged by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither ; illustrated by Andrew Slocombe.

Institute of Physics Pub.

c2001

xxiv, 596 p. ill. 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Accuracy -- Aesthetics -- Amoeba -- Amphibian -- Analogy -- Animal -- Arachnids -- Bacteria -- Bacteriologist -- Beauty -- Biological -- Biologist -- Biology -- Birds -- Book -- Botanist -- Botany -- Bug -- Cell -- Chance -- Chaos -- Characteristics -- Chromosomes -- Classification -- Clone -- Coleopterist -- Collecting -- Conchology -- Conservation -- Consultants -- Creationism -- Crustacean -- Darwinism -- Data -- Death -- Discovery -- Dispersal -- Dissection -- Divergence -- DNA -- Ecology -- Entomology -- Entropy -- Environment -- Error -- Ethics -- Evidence -- Evolution -- Exceptions -- Experience -- Experiment -- Extinction -- Extraterrestrial life -- Fact -- Fibonacci -- Fish -- Flowers -- Foresight -- Fungi -- Gaia -- Garden -- Gene -- Genera -- Genetics -- God -- Heredity -- Herpetologists -- Ichthyologist -- Idea -- Ignorance -- Imagination -- Insect -- Intelligence -- Kingdom -- Knowledge -- Laboratory -- Larva -- Law -- Life -- Man -- Mathematics -- Matter -- Metaphors -- Method -- Microbiology -- Microcosom [i.e. Microcosm] -- Microscope -- Molecular biology -- Molluscs -- Museum -- Mutations -- Myrmecologists -- , Names -- Natural history -- Natural selection -- Naturalist -- Nature -- Observation -- Occamʹs razor -- Ocean -- Organic -- Organism -- Organization -- Origins -- Ornithology -- Parasite -- Patterns -- Perception -- Photosynthesis -- Plants -- Pollution -- Prayer -- Primordial -- Protein -- Protozoa -- Reproduction -- Reptile -- Research -- Scenery -- Science -- Scientific method -- Scientist -- Seeds -- Sexuality -- Size -- Specialization -- Species -- Structure -- Survival -- Symmetry -- Synonymy -- Synthesis -- System -- Taxonomy -- Teleology -- Terminology -- Time -- Tree -- Truth -- Variation -- Vivisection -- Water -- Wetlands -- Wilderness -- Wildlife -- Worms -- Zoo -- Zoology.

Gaither, Carl C., , Cavazos-Gaither, Alma E.,

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