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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three…
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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling…
— Horace Mann
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Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths…
— Virgilia Peterson
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Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes…
— Chris Hedges
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
— Matthew Simpson
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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal,…
— Asa Gray
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We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect…
— Loren Eiseley
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine,…
— William Shakespeare
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat…
— Brigham Young
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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?…
— William Shakespeare
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Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other…
— Mark Twain
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Who will be happy to create a tornado in your life, Such people find in multitudinous, but ready to help you get…
— Mak_786
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