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> [We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asa-gray/we-may-take-it-to-be-the-accepted-idea-that-the-mosaic-books-were-not/)

[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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [“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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [“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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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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