Georges Cuvier Quotes

I like hummingbirds.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.