"Analogue. A part or organ in one animal……" — Richard Owen
"Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal."
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16 Quotes by Richard Owen
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from…
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and…
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may…
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence…
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or…
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought…
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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of…
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness,…
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either…
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That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit,…
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More Analogue Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship…
— Unknown Author
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress…
— Edward Bellamy
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Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
— Austin O'Malley
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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is,…
— Wolfgang Kohler
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth…
— Martin Gardner
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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I…
— Billy Sherwood
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the…
— Paul Carus
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken…
— David Abram
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Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a…
— Lewis Baltz
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space…
— Elizabeth Edwards
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