Joseph Dalton Hooker famous quotes

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Development #Evolution #Creation

I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt scenery—here however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Flower #Eye #Hands

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Book #Thinking #Evolution

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Life #Credit #Individual

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Independent #Views #Years

From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Country #Writing #Journey

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.
-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Science #Stronger #Climate

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity,

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.