List of Asa Gray Quotes

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Asa Gray
Total Quotes 21
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
Christian Attitude Men
Agassiz, when i saw him last, had read but a part of origin of species. he says it is poor-very poor!!. the fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.
Annoyed Lasts Saws
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
Two Different Kingdoms
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. it died a royal death with agassiz.
Science Views Essentials
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Calling Members Profession
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. i see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
May Extinction Causes
Indeed upon much that may have to say, i expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation i could most wish to win.
Winning Wish May
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
Real Animal Two
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
Book Order Ideas
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. it is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
Causes Theory Refreshing
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
Names Substance Matter
We have really, that i know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. it is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.
Philosophical Science Animal
  • Born: November 18, 1810
  • Died: January 30, 1888
  • Occupation: Botanist
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