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Quote by Georges Cuvier

“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.”

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Georges Cuvier

Georges Cuvier, a French naturalist born on August 23, 1769, and died on May 13, 1832, is one of the most outstanding naturalists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is known as one of the founders of comparative anatomy and has made significant contributions to paleontology and the theory of evolution. more

“Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in such a way as to render possible the existence of the being as a whole, not only in itself, but also in its relations with other beings, and the analysis of these conditions often leads to general laws which are as certain as those which are derived from calculation or from experiment.”

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Author:Georges Cuvier

“Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.”

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Book:The Deemster

Source: The Deemster

“State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.”