Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre. — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
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