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• The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
• It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we…
• Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
• It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
• In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of…
• Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them,…
• At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole…
• 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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