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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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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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Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close…
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