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„Schwester, ich war es, der entdeckt hat, dass die Egel rotes Blut haben […] Es ist wunderbar, wenn man sieht, dass die, die man liebt, noch schlucken können.“

Georges Cuvier

Letzte Worte, zuerst zu einer Krankenschwester, die ihm Blutegel ansetzte, dann bot ihm seine Tochter ein Glas Limonade an, er lehnte ab, sie trank es selbst, 13. Mai 1832

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“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.”

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as quoted from "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth".

“The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.”

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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.”

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Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles http://books.google.com/books?id=ajsyAQAAMAAJ (1810) as quoted in Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science (2005)

“The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.”

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The Animal Kingdom https://books.google.it/books?id=gKBgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA0, trans. H. McMurtrie, London: Orr and Smith, 1834, p. 37.

“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.”

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as stated in 1796 before the National Institute of Sciences and Arts in Paris, concerning fossil elephants.