Richard Owen Quotes

• You have been acquitted by a Limerick jury, and you may now leave the dock without any other stain upon your character.

  Richard Owen

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• Look here, sir, tell me no more unnecessary lies. Such lies as your attorney advised you are necessary for the presentation of your fraudulent case I will listen to though I shall decide against you whatever you swear, but if you tell me another unnecessary lie, I’ll put you in the dock.

  Richard Owen

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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 case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  Richard Owen

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Study, Scientific

• 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 distinguishable individuals of a species.

  Richard Owen

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  Tags in Admit, Condition, Constant

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

  Richard Owen

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  Tags in Attention, Structure, Devoted

• 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.

  Richard Owen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, After, Another

• Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

  Richard Owen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rather, Principle, Total

• 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.

  Richard Owen

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Living

• 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

  Topics in Nature, Progress

  Tags in Study

• Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

  Richard Owen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Others, Kinds

• 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 History facts.

  Richard Owen

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Facts

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

  Richard Owen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Between, Almost

Richard Owen (12)

Birth:	20th July, 1804
Death:	18th December, 1892
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Biologist, Paleontologist

About

Sir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

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