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Let us hope that in the interludes of rhetoric the logic of facts may find a moment to make itself heard. It will teach men... to hold of Nature that her ways are not as our ways, nor her thoughts as our thoughts.

George Rolleston

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George Rolleston

George Rolleston

Born: July 30, 1829
Died: June 16, 1881 (aged 51)
Bio: George Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS was an English physician and zoologist. He was the first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1860 until his death in 1881.
Known for:
  1. Report on Smyrna (1856)
  2. The Harveian Oration, 1873 (1873)

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