It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
More Quotes from Asa Gray:
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.Asa Gray
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.
Asa Gray
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
Asa Gray
The natural history of protoplasm enables me to proceed to other evidences of the substantial oneness of the two kingdoms of organic nature.
Asa Gray
Upon no one of these particular points has there been a completer change of view than upon the distinctness of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Asa Gray
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Animals QuotesBased on Keywords: distinctively, implicitly, seized
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
Mark Rydell
You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
Henny Youngman