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Jean-Baptiste Georges Marie Bory de Saint-Vincent
(6 Jul 1778 - 22 Dec 1846)
French biologist who was in the army for most of his career, but led botanical expeditions which added to knowledge of island fauna and the zoogeography of the seas.
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Science Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Georges Marie Bory de Saint-Vincent (1 quote)
Nature becomes fertile only by virtue of laws that oblige matter to organize itself into one of a number of necessarily very simple primitive forms. Because of their very simplicity, these are capable of constituting the basis for increasingly complex bodies, by the addition of organs calculated according to identical laws of possibility.
— Jean-Baptiste Georges Marie Bory de Saint-Vincent
'Matiere', Dictionnaire Classique d' Histoire Naturelle (1822-31), Vol. 10, 277, trans. J. Mandelbaum. Quoted in Pietro Corsi, The Age of Lamarck (1988), 225.
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- 6 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bory de Saint-Vincent's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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