The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life,… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
