Even before the "Origin" appeared Darwin anticipated the first results upon the mind of naturalists. He wrote to Asa Gray, Dec. 21, 1859: "I have made up my mind to be well abused; but I think it of importance that my notions should be read by intelligent men, accustomed to scientific argument, though NOT naturalists. It may seem absurd, but I think such men will drag after them those naturalists who have too firmly fixed in their heads that a species is an entity." ("Life and Letters" II. page 245.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
To those, however, who do feel an interest in the question, I would venture to give a word or two of advice. I would strongly deprecate forming a hurried opinion for or against the theory. Naturalists in Europe are canvassing the matter with the utmost diligence, and a few years must show whether they will accept the theory or no. It is plausible; that can be decided by no one. Whether it is true or no can be decided only among naturalists themselves. We are outsiders, and most of us must be content to sit on the stairs till the great men come forth and give us the benefit of their opinion.英文原著 · 《Canterbury Pieces》
" 'Oh! you are a naturalist, are you? Then, sir, I ask you, as a naturalist, do you not know it to be a fact in natural history that one jackass always brays as soon as he sees another?'英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
I am heartily glad to hear your Journal (Sir J.D. Hooker's 'Himalayan Journal.') is so much advanced; how magnificently it seems to be illustrated! An "Oriental Naturalist," with lots of imagination and not too much regard to facts, is just the man to discuss species! I think your title of 'A Journal of a Naturalist in the East' very good; but whether "in the Himalaya" would not be better, I have doubted, for the East sounds rather vague...英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
"This last naturalist [Haeckel]...has recently...published his 'Naturliche Schopfungs-geschichte,' in which he fully discusses the genealogy of man. If this work had appeared before my essay had been written, I should probably never have completed it. Almost all the conclusions at which I have arrived, I find confirmed by this naturalist, whose knowledge on many points is much fuller than mine.") I cannot tell you how glad I am to find that I have expressed my high admiration of your labours with sufficient clearness; I am sure that I have not expressed it too strongly."]英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
Hugh Falconer, in Paleontological Memoirs, vol. II., p. [5] (p. Ibid., p. [6] (p. Ibid., p. [7] (p. Fossil Horses in America (reprinted from American Naturalist, vol.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-3》
And they were interested in the concept of a naturalistic world. and they were interested in the concept of a naturalistic world.演讲 · 《Is anatomy destiny ~ Alice Dreger》
"Naturalist" means, of course, as opposed to "supernaturalist" -- "Naturalist" means, of course, as opposed to "supernaturalist" --演讲 · 《Militant atheism ~ Richard Dawkins》