Science Quotes

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"The unity of life suggests a common origin."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Life manifests in degrees of organization."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"All matter possesses some degree of sentience."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Intelligence itself is a product of environmental pressure."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Heredity transmits the acquired modifications of ancestors."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Structure follows function in all living things."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Nature's variations hold the key to understanding change."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Each species bears the marks of its history."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Complexity arises from simple repeated principles."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"All bodies contain the seed of motion."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The archetype of the vertebrate is found in the nature of things."
Richard Owen
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"Fossils are the letters in which nature writes her autobiography."
Richard Owen
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"The skeleton is the foundation upon which all vertebrate life is built."
Richard Owen
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"Evolution is written in stone for those with eyes to read it."
Richard Owen
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"Collection and classification are the foundation of all science."
Richard Owen
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"Life's forms are infinite in variation yet unified in principle."
Richard Owen
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"The study of bones is the study of life's possibilities."
Richard Owen
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"Nature's experiments have been running for millions of years."
Richard Owen
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"Science is the conversation between human curiosity and nature's secrets."
Richard Owen
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"Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The Earth's creation is the object of geology."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Study nature, not books."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"A naturalist who is not a botanist is not complete."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"To classify is to understand."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"A man who does not love nature cannot love science."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The language of nature is mathematics and observation."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Observation without classification is mere wandering."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The universe is a book written in the language of geometry."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The observer becomes one with the observed."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Through science we read the mind of the Almighty."
Carolus Linnaeus