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Charles Otis Whitman
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“The establishment of a , which, in the hands of , will doubtless be pushed to a speedy completion, will create facilities for the study of on a much larger scale than we have hitherto seen in this country; and the successful issue of this enterprise, we venture to predict, will increase rather than diminish the number of American s at . Whatever improves our facilities for study will tend to increase the general interest in biology, and to augment the number of naturalists who will seek the best that world affords in the way of methods.”
Charles Otis Whitman (1842–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[ Darwin's] triumph has won for us a common height from which we see the whole world of living beings as well as all inorganic nature; phenomena of every order we now regard as expressions of natural causes. The supernatural has no longer a standing is science; it has vanished like a dream, and the halls consecrated to its thraldom of the intellect are becoming radiant with a more cheerful faith.”
Charles Otis Whitman (1842–1910) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: lecture at Clark University, "A study in evolution, based on color-characters in pigeons, and bearing on moot questions" (1909), quoted in Eight Little Piggies (W.W. Norton, 1993) by Stephen Jay Gould, page 366