"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were……" — Asa Gray
"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them."
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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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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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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living…
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
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