The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, wher…

- Edward Forbes

As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybo…

- Edward Forbes

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

- Edward Forbes

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an…

- Edward Forbes

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.

- Edward Forbes

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nat…

- Edward Forbes

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent…

- Edward Forbes

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep wat…

- Edward Forbes

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interestin…

- Edward Forbes