"The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are……" — Richard Owen
"The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations."
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Richard Owen
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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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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a…
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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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More Aspiration Quotes
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
— Allan Bloom
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
— Victor Borge
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
— William Ellery Channing
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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