“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same,… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jennings Bryan, but he fails to hear a single sound. The earth speaks from the remotest periods in its wonderful life history in the Archaeozoic Age, when it reveals only a few tissues of its primitive plants. Fifty million years ago it begins to… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself,… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.” — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined. — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its wonderful message… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
