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Fritz Müller
(31 Mar 1822 - 21 May 1897)
German entomologist, botanist and zoologist whose important work was done in Brazil. In his field, he was a prolific observer and writer, among the most respected scientists of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin called him the “prince of observers.”
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Science Quotes by Fritz Müller (1 quote)
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently. (1864)
— Fritz Müller
As translated and quoted in Ernst Haeckel and E. Ray Lankester (trans.) as epigraph for Chap. 13, The History of Creation (1886), Vol. 1, 406.
See also:
- 31 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Müller's birth.
- Fritz Muller: A Naturalist in Brazil, by David A. West. - 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.
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