As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly unders...tood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced... by every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his pa...per on "The Survival of the Fittest." These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »