John Ray

John Ray
John Raywas an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth29 November 1627
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Just to hear that baby hollering and crying, that was the thing.
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It was all flames. There was a fire coming out of the window here, all at the top here ... And right when you go through the front door, where the bookshelf was, there was a bunch of fire there, too.
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If we can get that partnership between a scientist at (the University of Miami) and somebody out of Boston, then we've started a linkage. We've made a lot of sales calls here, but this is really a research-collaboration trip.
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The dad was running and trying to get the baby, so he had burns on his hands.
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It will be a good effort, and I think it will be good as far as the City of Borger, showing our support and going to them.
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This is our opportunity to get back to the community and the island, and hopefully to encourage those young doctors to come back to Guam, ... We are getting older and are going to be tired one of these days. We've got to look for our replacements and prepare for the future.
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Scripps is not going to agree to a contract at all costs. It's a partnership, and the two parties need to figure out a way both sides are successful. They need to keep their eyes on the prize: long-term job creation and breakthrough drug discovery.
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
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Where love fails we espy all faults.
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They love too much that die for love.
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
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Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.