Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.” — Asa Gray Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
