Georges Cuvier citations
Georges Cuvier
Date de naissance: 23. août 1769
Date de décès: 13. mai 1832
Autres noms:George Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, dit Georges Cuvier, né le 23 août 1769 à Montbéliard et mort le 13 mai 1832 à Paris, est un anatomiste français, promoteur de l'anatomie comparée et de la paléontologie au XIXe siècle.
Citations Georges Cuvier
„The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.“
— Georges Cuvier
about the writings of Joseph Banks. as stated in "Cavendish: The Experimental Life" on page 461, by Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, published in 1999.
„To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.“
— Georges Cuvier
[http://books.google.com/books?id=ajsyAQAAMAAJ Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles] (1810) as quoted in Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science (2005)
„It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.“
— Georges Cuvier
as stated in 1796 before the National Institute of Sciences and Arts in Paris, concerning fossil elephants.
„The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.“
— Georges Cuvier
[https://books.google.it/books?id=gKBgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA0 The Animal Kingdom], trans. H. McMurtrie, London: Orr and Smith, 1834, p. 37.
„Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.“
— Georges Cuvier
as quoted from "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth".
