Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

- Richard Owen

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries rel…

- Richard Owen

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of othe…

- Richard Owen

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

- Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

- Richard Owen

The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately f…

- Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguish…

- Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attainin…

- Richard Owen

But, 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 …

- Richard Owen