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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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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three…
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that…
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