Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.” — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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