"It is my object, in the following work,……" — 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 acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected."
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Georges Cuvier
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23 Quotes by Georges Cuvier
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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…
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of…
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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…
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The…
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The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the…
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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is…
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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet…
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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive…
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It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these…
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the…
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