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Professor of Embryology and Anatomy Taylor Science Center 2066 Phone 315-859-4187 E-mail: smiller |
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"Our real teacher
has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the
only teacher who is always right."
-- Viktor
Hamburger 1900-2001
"Models
come and go; the embryo is never wrong."
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Elizabeth D. Hay 1927-2007 [as reported by Drew
Noden]
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Selected Thoughts on Teaching, Learning and Evaluating Health Professions Advisory Committee Sigma Xi, the scientific research society- Hamilton College Chapter |
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"The nature lover
is not looking for mere facts, but for meanings, for
something he can translate into the terms of his own life. "
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John Burroughs
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At 15,000' on the way to Kibo-Kilimanjaro ©1969 SAMiller |
Education
Previous Academic Employment
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Late summer sunrise on Mt.
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"Travel is fatal
to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -
Mark
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Family cat studying future
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"...
nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a
journey in distant countries." -
Charles
Darwin 1845 |
Sources of quotations (information always welcome) :
1. John Burroughs (1837-1921) a thoughtful naturalist who traveled with famous contemporaries. His home was on a modest farm in the NW Catskills of Upstate NY.
2. Burroughs, John 1912. " The Gospel of Nature" in Time and Change. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp.273-279
3. Darwin, Charles, 1845. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World [2nd ed.]. London: John Murray, 519 p. [N.B. This was later published as the book known as The Voyage of the Beagle. The quote is part of a passage that marks the first major insight that began to undermine Darwin's belief in the prevailing notion of species as special creations.]