I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Asa GrayI accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
Asa GrayFaith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
Asa GrayThis substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
Asa Gray