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> [The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/the-great-age-of-the-earth-will-appear-greater-to-man-when-he/)

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## More by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

> [One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/one-must-believe-that-every-living-thing-whatsoever-must-change/)

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> [All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/all-known-living-bodies-are-sharply-divided-into-two-special-kingdoms/)

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> [After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/after-having-produced-aquatic-animals-of-all-ranks-and-having-caused/)

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> [What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/what-nature-does-in-the-course-of-long-periods-we-do-every-day-when/)

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> [Habits form a second nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/habits-form-a-second-nature/)

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> [In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/in-every-animal-which-has-not-passed-the-limit-of-its-development-a/)

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> [The form follows the function.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/the-form-follows-the-function/)

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> [A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/a-sound-physics-of-the-earth-should-include-all-the-primary/)

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> [On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/on-our-planet-all-objects-are-subject-to-continual-and-inevitable/)

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> [All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/all-knowledge-that-is-not-the-real-product-of-observation-or-of/)

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> [“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/first-law-in-every-animal-which-has-not-passed-the-limit-of-its/)

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> [All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/all-the-acquisitions-or-losses-wrought-by-nature-on-individuals/)

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> [Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/now-this-circumscribed-power-which-we-have-scarcely-examined-scarcely/)

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> [It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/it-is-not-always-the-magnitude-of-the-differences-observed-between/)

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> [However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-lamarck/however-if-we-consider-that-all-the-characteristics-which-have-been/)

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