Biographies Quote by Georges Cuvier

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the…

— Georges Cuvier

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time…

— Georges Cuvier

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory…

— Georges Cuvier

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial…

— Georges Cuvier

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

— Georges Cuvier

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader…

— Georges Cuvier

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient…

— Georges Cuvier

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the…

— Georges Cuvier

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason…

— Georges Cuvier

It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled…

— Georges Cuvier

The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent;…

— Georges Cuvier

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,…

— Georges Cuvier