"Georges Cuvier was a great naturalist from the beginning of the 19th century, so right around 1800, and he was the fi…"

"Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Arist…"

"Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them…"

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary qu…"

"To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and pa…"

"The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their…"

"The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent par…"

"The synthesis of paleontology, taxonomy, and comparative anatomy that Cuvier achieved was based on a teleological app…"

"Schwester, ich war es, der entdeckt hat, dass die Egel rotes Blut haben […] Es ist wunderbar, wenn man sieht, dass di…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"