"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men……" — Asa Gray

"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order."

— Asa Gray

28 Quotes by Asa Gray

Asa Gray has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Another Order Quotes

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We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There… — Joseph Campbell
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis. — Minor White
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... — Plotinus
The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual… — Frederick Lenz
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess… — Plotinus
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare… — James A. Baldwin
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving… — Aldous Huxley

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