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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/your-candor-is-worth-everything-to-your-cause-it-is-refreshing-to/)

[Asa Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asa-gray/)

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## More by Asa Gray

> [This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/this-substance-which-is-manifold-in-its-forms-and-protean-in-its/)

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> [Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/is-it-philosophical-is-it-quite-allowable-to-assume-without-evidence/)

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> [The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/the-best-opinion-now-is-that-there-are-multitudinous-forms-which-are/)

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> [It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/it-remains-to-consider-what-attitude-thoughtful-men-and-christian/)

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> [“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/botany-is-the-name-of-the-science-of-the-vegetable-kingdom-in-general/)

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> [Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/why-is-it-not-just-as-likely-that-there-were-as-many-small-general/)

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> [I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/i-know-some-people-who-never-have-any-difficulties-to-speak-of-the/)

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> [It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/it-was-implicitly-supposed-that-every-living-thing-was-distinctively/)

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> [“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/this-view-as-a-rounded-whole-and-in-all-its-essential-elements-has/)

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> [Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/faith-in-order-which-is-the-basis-of-science-cannot-reasonably-be/)

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> [Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/indeed-upon-much-that-may-have-to-say-i-expect-rather-the-charitable/)

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> [But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/but-it-was-soon-ascertained-that-this-quaternary-matter-of-the-animal/)

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> [Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/next-it-was-found-that-it-was-physiologically-and-structurally-the/)

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> [There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/there-is-a-class-moreover-by-whom-all-these-scientific-theories-and/)

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> [“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/perhaps-if-zoologists-would-contemplate-the-wide-variations-presented/)

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