"I take it for granted that you do……" — Asa Gray
"I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room."
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28 Quotes by Asa Gray
Asa Gray has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of…
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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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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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