Richard Owen quotes

Richard Owen was an English biologist and paleontologist renowned for his work on fossil animals. His research led to the naming of "Dinosauria" and laid the foundation for modern paleontology. He made significant contributions to comparative anatomy and natural history. Here are 11 of his quotes:

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. (Richard Owen)
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. View quote
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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. View quote
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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. View quote
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. View quote
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature. View quote
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Don't be afraid to fart while peeing, every rainstorm needs a bit of thunder. View quote
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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. View quote
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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, the test of Natural History facts. View quote
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. View quote
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That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species. (Richard Owen)

Richard Owen

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Occupation: English Biologist
Born: July 20, 1804
Died: December 18, 1892
Quotes count: 11
Wikipedia: Richard Owen

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