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10 quotes by Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen FRS KCB (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. Owen produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully...
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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

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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... →

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

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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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