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. (Richard Owen)

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.

Richard Owen

Related topics

judgment led specifying variation others Lamarck

Related quotes

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. View quote
John Stuart Mill
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. View quote
Edward Gibbon