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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now…
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for…
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately…
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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one…
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network…
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate…
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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports…
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test…
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or…
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity…
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...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the…
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What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command…
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for…
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
— Richard P. Feynman
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If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your…
— Ayn Rand
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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
— Edmar Mednis
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to…
— Lajos Kossuth
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