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Great Quotes by Georges Cuvier
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
- In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the…
- The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain…
- The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more…
- Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world…
- The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and…
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