"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species.……" — Asa Gray
"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."
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28 Quotes by Asa Gray
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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance…
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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living…
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