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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the…
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually…
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not…
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never…
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long…
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons…
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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and…
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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some…
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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes…
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real…
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It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able…
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention…
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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing…
— Jean Klein
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
— Henry Walter Bates
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether…
— Max Wertheimer
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston…
— Stephen Colbert
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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…
— Georges Cuvier
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It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let…
— Maxine Waters
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Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a…
— Bill Bryson
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And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper…
— David Hume
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I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at…
— Mireille Guiliano
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were…
— Harold H. Greene
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