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Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier [1]​ barón de Cuvier fue un naturalista francés.

Fue el primer gran promotor de la anatomía comparada y de la paleontología. Ocupó diferentes puestos de importancia en la educación nacional francesa en la época de Napoleón y tras la restauración de los Borbones fue nombrado profesor de anatomía comparada del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Francia, en París. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. agosto 1769 – 13. mayo 1832   •   Otros nombres George Cuvier
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“Las ideas, una vez inculcadas en el espíritu, son como las semillas, de las que el producto depende de las leyes de la naturaleza y no de la voluntad de aquellos que las han diseminado.”

Georges Cuvier

Fuente : Recueil des éloges historiques, Vol. 1, Georges Cuvier, éd. Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1861, Éloge historique de Priestley (1805), pág. 133.

“Un mundo aniquilado no deja descendencia, es preciso que nuevas especies reaparezcan a partir de la nada, especies que serán inmutables, por lo menos hasta la próxima catástrofe y nuevo comienzo.”

Georges Cuvier

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Georges Cuvier: Frases en inglés

“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.”

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as quoted from "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth".

“The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.”

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about the writings of Joseph Banks. as stated in "Cavendish: The Experimental Life" on page 461, by Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, published in 1999.

“To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.”

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Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles http://books.google.com/books?id=ajsyAQAAMAAJ (1810) as quoted in Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science (2005)

“The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.”

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The Animal Kingdom https://books.google.it/books?id=gKBgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA0, trans. H. McMurtrie, London: Orr and Smith, 1834, p. 37.

“It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.”

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as stated in 1796 before the National Institute of Sciences and Arts in Paris, concerning fossil elephants.