Edward Forbes Quotes

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• In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come…
• [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all…
• Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.
• As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an…
• The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain…
• ...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep…
• Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know…
• Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches…
• As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others.…
• I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among…
• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500…
• The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of…
• Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.
• Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in…

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