All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.


Histoire des Progrès des Sciences naturelles depuis (1789), Vol. 1, 310. Quoted in E. S. Russell, Form and Function (1916)

Georges Cuvier Quotes

All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear...

All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear...

All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear...

All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear...