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

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

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

- 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

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

...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

Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, shou…

- Edward Forbes

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all…

- Edward Forbes