"Why is it not just as likely that……" — Asa Gray
"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
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Asa Gray
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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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More Disproportion Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they…
— Aristotle
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A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of…
— David Hume
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the…
— James Dean
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
— Victor Hugo
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
— Franz Kafka
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing,…
— Bruno Schulz
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between…
— Henry Villard
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Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other…
— James Dean
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