"All known living bodies are sharply divided into……" — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
"All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point."
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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18 Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may…
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must…
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its…
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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in…
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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and…
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said,…
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It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to…
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute…
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