Georges Cuvier Quotes About Bones

• The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

  Georges Cuvier

  Land, Dry, Body

• 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

  Taken, Eye, Science

• My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, Land, Connections

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