If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent;… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
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