No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard OwenBut, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
Richard OwenEvery step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
Richard Owen