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“Les idées une fois jetées dans les esprits sont comme les semences, dont le produit dépend des lois de la nature, et non de la volonté de ceux qui les ont répandues.”

Georges Cuvier

Sur les Idées

“Le raisonnement n'est que le moindre des moyens nécessaires pour faire prévaloir parmi les hommes des opinions qui blessent leurs habitudes ou leurs intérêts du moment.”

Georges Cuvier

Sur les Idées

“Au onzième siècle l'Europe ne recevait guère de lumières que des Arabes d'Espagne. La plupart des chrétiens qui cherchaient à s'instruire, surtout en médecine, se rendaient dans leurs écoles. Gerbert, archevêque de Reims, l'un des grands hommes du siècle, et qui devint pape sous le nom de Sylvestre II, avait fait ses études à Cordoue. C'est par lui que fut introduit chez les chrétiens l'usage des chiffres arabes, si commodes pour les calculs. […] Les écoles des Arabes avaient une supériorité trop remarquable, pour qu'elles ne devinssent pas le modèle de celles qui furent établies plus tard en France et ailleurs.”

Georges Cuvier

Sur les sciences

Georges Cuvier: Citations en anglais

“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.