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Georges Cuvier has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we…
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole…
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Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of…
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The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of…
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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to…
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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly…
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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on…
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It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing…
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make…
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I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
— Woody Allen
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Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
— Georges Cuvier
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…
— Hannah More
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
— Oscar Wilde
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He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think…
— Anne Heche
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Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from…
— John Huston
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Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such…
— Albert Camus
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The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I…
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
— W.C. Fields
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"Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a…
— Mary Lavin
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There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest…
— Voltaire
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