Marston Bates

“The problem of man's relation to his environment is a single problem, and it has to be looked at in its totality.”

“Any classification is a violation of the richness of the material, but without it we cannot see the woods for the trees.”

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

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

“The tropics are not so much a paradise as a workshop.”

“We are living in a zoological park, not a garden of Eden.”

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

“Sex has been a perennial puzzle for the biologist.”

“The whole human enterprise is a biological phenomenon.”

“I suspect that the human tendency to translate desire into a moral imperative and then to legislate on that basis is a pretty constant characteristic of all societies.”

“The great poetic statements of the past are no longer enough.”

“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is, inevitably, a war against himself.”