Richard Owen Quotes

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.
Richard Owen

History, Before, Facts

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

Him, Others, Kinds

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.
Richard Owen

Nature, Study, Progress

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

Experience, Living, Another

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.
Richard Owen

Life, Rather, Principle

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.
Richard Owen

Before, After, Maturity

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen

Attention, Structure, Devoted

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

Life, Admit, Condition

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.
Richard Owen

Nature, Study, Scientific

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
Richard Owen

Between, Almost, Vodka

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: July 20, 1804

Died: December 18, 1892

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