Asa Gray

Quotes

• “Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same spe...”
• “We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culmin...”
• “This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a r...”
• “It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they st...”
• “Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now ...”