Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions. — 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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