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Rachel Carson — Portrait after a picture by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Rachel Carson

American marine biologist and conservationist

1907–1964

16 quotes, most often on Nature, Science and Writing.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952) for The Sea Around Us
- Science
- Writing
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.
Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
- Nature
- Science
Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called “insecticides,” but “biocides.”
Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
- Science

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