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William Beebe
4 quotes
“To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal (31 December 1893)
“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bird (1906)
“These descents of mine beneath the sea seemed to partake of a real cosmic character. First of all there was the complete and utter loneliness and isolation, a feeling wholly unlike the isolation felt when removed from fellow men by mere distance … . It was a loneliness more akin to a first venture upon the moon or Venus than that from a plane in mid-ocean or a stance on Mount Everest: no whit more wonderful than these feats, but different.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Half Mile Down (1951), p. 148
“The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz (1963)