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> [The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/the-steam-engine-in-its-manifold-applications-the-crime-decreasing/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

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## More by Richard Owen

> [The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/the-combination-of-such-characters-some-as-the-sacral-ones-altogether/)

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> [Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/homologue-the-same-organ-in-different-animals-under-every-variety-of/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/the-powers-aspirations-and-mission-of-man-are-such-as-to-raise-the/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/analogue-a-part-or-organ-in-one-animal-which-has-the-same-function-as/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/mr-darwin-refers-to-the-multitude-of-the-individual-of-every-species/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/but-as-we-have-before-been-led-to-remark-most-of-mr-darwin-s/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/that-the-variability-of-an-organism-to-a-certain-extent-is-a-constant/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/the-relationship-between-a-russian-and-a-bottle-of-vodka-is-almost/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/the-steam-engine-in-its-manifold-applications-the-crime-decreasing/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/mr-darwin-contributes-some-striking-and-ingenious-instances-of-the/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/rapid-innovation-is-the-cure-for-the-ills-we-face-but-because/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/cuvier-had-preceded-lamarck-in-specifying-the-kinds-and-degrees-of/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/manifold-subsequent-experience-has-led-to-a-truer-appreciation-and-a/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/the-laws-of-coexistence-the-adaptation-of-structure-to-function-and/)

[Richard Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-owen/)

> [Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-owen/every-step-in-the-progress-of-this-study-has-tended-to-obliterate-the/)

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