Edward Forbes Quotes

• The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Law, Wonder

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• The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

  Edward Forbes

  Sea, Ties, Links

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.5

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• People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

  Edward Forbes

  Money, People, Independence

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• As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean Exploration, Gmos, Sparks

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.26

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• In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

  Edward Forbes

  Taken, Independent, Men

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• En cuanto a dar crédito a quien lo merece, tenga la seguridad de que la mejor manera de hacer el bien a uno mismo es hacer justicia a los demás. Hay mucho para todos en la ciencia, y más de lo que se puede consumir en nuestro tiempo. Uno puede conseguir un buen nombre suprimiendo referencias, pero la máxima judía es cierta: 'El que busca un nombre pierde la fama'.

  Edward Forbes

  Science, Self, Names

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• ...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

  Edward Forbes

  Believe, Ocean, Deep Water

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56

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• Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Kingdoms, Empires

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.3

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• Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

  Edward Forbes

  Zero, Animal, Ocean Exploration

  Edward Forbes (1843). “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology”

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• I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.

  Edward Forbes

  Hands, Interesting, Streams

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Depth, Looks, Shells

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• [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

  Edward Forbes

  Character, Science, Epic

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• La investigación paleontológica muestra, sin lugar a dudas, el fenómeno de las provincias en el tiempo, así como el de las provincias en el espacio.

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  Space, Research, Wells

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

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• Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Space, Research

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

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