Charles Darwin Quotes About Tree Of Life
-
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.
→ -
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.
→ -
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly to reappear, though it would be quite impossible to give definitions by which each group could be distinguished from other groups, as all would blend together by steps as fine as those between the finest existing varieties, nevertheless a natural classification, or at least a natural arrangement, would be possible.
→
Related Authors
-
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Science writer -
Sigmund Freud Neurologist -
Richard Dawkins Ethologist -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Salvador Dali Painter -
Alfred Russel Wallace Naturalist -
Karl Marx Philosopher -
Gregor Mendel Scientist -
Nicolaus Copernicus Mathematician -
Carl Linnaeus Botanist -
Stephen Hawking Physicist -
Isaac Newton Physicist -
Galileo Galilei Physicist -
Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President -
Thomas A. Edison Inventor -
Charles Lyell Lawyer -
Louis Pasteur Chemist -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Herbert Spencer Philosopher