Richard Owen Quotes

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• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each…
• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
• The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the…
• Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
• Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
• Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon…
• Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even…
• Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating…
• Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led…
• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
• But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History…
• Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining…
• That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no…
• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity…
• The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
• Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the…

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