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John Ray, až do roku 1670 uváděný pod jménem John Wray , byl anglický přírodovědec.

Napsal několik významných prací o rostlinách, živočiších a o přirozené theologii. Jeho klasifikace rostlin v díle Historia Plantarum značně přispěla k moderní taxonomii. Od začátku odmítal systém dichotomického vztahu a rostliny na místo toho klasifikoval podle vzhledu a vzájemných rozdílů, které zaznamenal při pozorování. Tím značně urychlil vědecký empirismus. Vytvořil také pojem druh. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. listopad 1627 – 17. leden 1705
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„Zlá rána se vyléčí, špatné jméno ne.“

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“Money and friendship bribe justice.
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.”

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Zdroj: English Proverbs (1670), p. 94

“If wishes were butter-cakes, beggars might bite.
If wishes were thrushes, beggars would eat birds.
If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.”

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Zdroj: English Proverbs (1670), p. 174

“In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”

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Zdroj: English Proverbs (1670), p. 4

“As full as a piper's bag; as a tick.
As full as a toad is of poison.
As full as a jade, quoth the bride.
As gant as a greyhound.
As glad as a fowl of a fair day.
To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.
To go out like a candle in a snuff.
As good as George of Green.
To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.”

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Zdroj: English Proverbs (1670), p. 228

“I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.”

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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation http://books.google.com/books?id=rRI5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA309 (1691). p. 309

“The use of plants is all our life long of that universal importance and concern that we can neither live nor subsist with any decency and convenience, or be said, indeed, to live at all without them. Whatsoever food is necessary to sustain us, whatsoever conteibutes to delight and refresh us, is supplied and brought forth out of that plentiful and abundant store. And ah! how much more innocent, sweet, and healthful is a table covered with those than with all the reeking flesh of butchered and slaughtered animals. Certainly man by nature was never made to be a carnivorous animal, nor is he armed at all for prey and rapine, with jagged and pointed teeth and crooked claws sharpened to rend and tear, but with gentle hands to gather fruit and vegetables, and with teeth to chew and eat them.”

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Quoted in The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating by Howard Williams (London: F. Pitman, 1883), p. 107 https://archive.org/stream/ethicsofdietcate00will/ethicsofdietcate00will#page/107/mode/2up.