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Othniel Marsh
(29 Oct 1831 - 18 Mar 1899)
American paleontologist who discovered over 1000 fossils and contributed much knowledge on extinct North American vertebrates.
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Science Quotes by Othniel Marsh (1 quote)
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]
— Othniel Marsh
In Dinocerata: a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals (1884), Preface, xvii.
See also:
- 29 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Marsh's birth.
- Othniel Marsh - Obituary
- Otheniel Charles Marsh: Obituary - Science (1899)
- O.C. Marsh: Pioneer in Paleontology, by Charles Schuchert and Clara M. Levene. - book suggestion.
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.
(1987) -- 
