"The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing……" — Richard Owen
"The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched."
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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 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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That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit,…
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