"It is to them [fossils] alone that we……" — 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 to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth."
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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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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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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and…
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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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