Zoology Quotes

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology. - Henry Louis Mencken

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between? - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. - Gilbert White

HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises. - Ambrose Bierce

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. - Karl Von Frisch