All Georges Cuvier Quotes
- The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. Experimenter
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… Alone
- At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it… Appears
- Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches Apply
- It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… Aid
- In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the… All
- The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain… Closer
- My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of… Animal
- It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary… Anything Demonstrable
- Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds… Altered
- It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… Acquaintance
- It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted… Absolutely
- But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata… Ancient
- Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they… Any
- The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more… All
- The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them… Appearance
- Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world… Animal
- Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. Animal
- Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would… Alone
- Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it… Ascertain
- If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… All
- The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and… Banks
- The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and… Distances