Baron Cuvier

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or cuvier:

“The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.”
—Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield, Or Baron Pass (1859–1947)

“Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on “The Survival of the Fittest.” These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)