Genera Quotes

15 quotes by 9 authors

The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences… — Ray Lankester
Botany is based on fixed genera. — Carl Linnaeus
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear… — George Gaylord Simpson
In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. — Stephen Hawking
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of… — Leon Croizat
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. — Carl Linnaeus
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and… — Asa Gray
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost… — John Moody
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection… — John Moody
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger… — Asa Gray
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly… — George Gaylord Simpson

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