Evolution Quotes by Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once…

— Asa Gray

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as…

— Asa Gray

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another…

— Asa Gray

“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.”

— Asa Gray

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion…

— Asa Gray

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a…

— Asa Gray

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if…

— Asa Gray

“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with…

— Asa Gray

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

— Asa Gray

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could…

— Asa Gray

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and…

— Asa Gray

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant,…

— Asa Gray

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical…

— Asa Gray

“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities…

— Asa Gray