"Life became a science when interest shifted from……" — George Amos Dorsey
"Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in."
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George Amos Dorsey
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6 Quotes by George Amos Dorsey
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is…
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The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.
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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished…
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The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as…
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Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice…
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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