A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision.… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny.… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
