Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being to which this fragment belonged appears in my mind's eye. Georges Cuvier
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being to which this fragment belonged appears in my mind's eye.
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. Georges Cuvier
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness. Georges Cuvier
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness.
This is because the number,direction,and shape of the bones that compose each part of an animal’s body are always in a necessary relation to all the other parts,in such a way that—up to a point—one can infer the whole from any one of them. Georges Cuvier
This is because the number,direction,and shape of the bones that compose each part of an animal’s body are always in a necessary relation to all the other parts,in such a way that—up to a point—one can infer the whole from any one of them.
