33 Quotes by Asa Gray

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Upon no one of these particular points has there been a completer change of view than upon the distinctness of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.

The natural history of protoplasm enables me to proceed to other evidences of the substantial oneness of the two kingdoms of organic nature.

Increased powers of investigation- microscopical and chemical- might be expected to discover them. This expectation has not been fulfilled.