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To designate the locations of organs by the relation of animals to the surface of the earth is as far from philosophical as it would be to define the position of a house or of a tree by reference to the planet Jupiter.

Burt Green Wilder

The test of the accuracy and completeness of a description is, not that it may assist, but that it cannot mislead.

Burt Green Wilder

Life is too short to spend in digging for Truth with a long-handled shovel when a trowel will serve the purpose; nor is it becoming that any nation, however wise and great, should ask all the rest to take their intellectual food with chop-sticks of its peculiar pattern.

Burt Green Wilder

Burt Green Wilder

Burt Green Wilder

Born: August 11, 1841

Died: January 21, 1925 (aged 83)

Bio: Burt Green Wilder was an American comparative anatomist, born in Boston to David and Celia Colton Wilder. He graduated at Harvard. During part of the Civil War he served as surgeon of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry.

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