Richard Owen Quotes

Richard Owen — English Scientist born on July 20, 1804, died on December 18, 1892

Sir Richard Owen FRS KCB 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... (wikipedia)

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

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

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

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

Richard Owen Quotes

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