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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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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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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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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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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a…
— Empedocles
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…
— George Wald
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and…
— John of Damascus
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For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which…
— Maimonides
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into…
— Pema Chodron
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Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements…
— Dogen
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you…
— Antonio Tabucchi
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