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Asa Gray Quotes

Asa Gray quotes

American Scientist November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888

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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. Asa Gray
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. Asa Gray
Asa Gray quote: "I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo..."
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. Asa Gray
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. Asa Gray
But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal. Asa Gray
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. Asa Gray
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. Asa Gray

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