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Asa Gray has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 POOR!!. The…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
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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 in their…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
— Isaac Barrow
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In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as…
— Unknown Author
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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy…
— Aleister Crowley
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In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as…
— William Herschel
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
— Pierre Corneille
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,…
— Eudora Welty
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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