It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but … - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

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All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

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It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

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The form follows the function.

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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.

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