Asa Gray
Botanist
1810-11-18 – 1888-01-30
American botanist regarded as one of the most important U.S. botanists of the 19th century. He was a leading advocate for Darwin's ideas in America and developed major botanical reference works. He died in 1888.
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Quotes by Asa Gray
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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
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