"All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature……" — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
"All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young."
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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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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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On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things.…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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