Top 36 Cuvier Quotes

#1. Sunshine is just beyond the clouds Carl Joesph Gunner

Karen Kingsbury

Cuvier Quotes #27510
#2. My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

Georges Cuvier

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#3. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#4. 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 Quotes #182175
#5. Kill time and you will kill your career.

B.C. Forbes

Cuvier Quotes #232808
#6. In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

Michael Ruse

Cuvier Quotes #365532
#7. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

Charles Darwin

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#8. I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

Rob James-Collier

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#9. But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Georges Cuvier

Cuvier Quotes #554914
#10. The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

Georges Cuvier

Cuvier Quotes #565904
#11. All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.

Georges Cuvier

Cuvier Quotes #568099
#12. If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.
But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Colin Bateman

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#13. [Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Georges Cuvier

Cuvier Quotes #630585
#14. Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

Niklas Zennstrom

Cuvier Quotes #648716
#15. If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.

John McAfee

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#16. Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

Taslima Nasrin

Cuvier Quotes #730354
#17. The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.

Georges Cuvier

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#18. Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

Georges Cuvier

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#19. Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Georges Cuvier

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#20. It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

Georges Cuvier

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#21. Career miracles happen when you're so in love with your life that pushing yourself is actually easier than stopping, when you "do without doing." Joyful activity adds real value to the world, and adding value is the heart and soul of a successful career.

Martha N. Beck

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#22. The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

Georges Cuvier

Cuvier Quotes #1145087
#23. If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#24. Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

Georges Cuvier

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#25. Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

Georges Cuvier

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#26. The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

Georges Cuvier

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#27. Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Ellen G. White

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#28. It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

Georges Cuvier

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#29. Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

Georges Cuvier

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#30. Cakes of rice are not a snack. I suspect them of evil deeds for this alone.

J.D. Robb

Cuvier Quotes #1514370
#31. [ ... ] I think no one - human or otherwise - is perfect. If perfection is the standard for normalcy, we all fail.

Sylvain Reynard

Cuvier Quotes #1554698
#32. I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Cuvier Quotes #1670943
#33. The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.

{Cuvier on Joseph Banks}

Georges Cuvier

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#34. The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

Georges Cuvier

Cuvier Quotes #1719995
#35. The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

Georges Cuvier

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#36. Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

Georges Cuvier

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