Grant Allen Quotes

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What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

Grant Allen
In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestors dive; From a shapeless, albuminous grain We mortals are being derived.

Grant Allen
A jellyfish swam in a tropical sea, And he said, "This world it consists of me: There's nothing above and nothing below That a jellyfish ever can possibly know (Since we've got no sight, or hearing, or smell), Beyond what our single sense can tell."

Grant Allen
If we object to the king of beasts that (as Thersites said of Agamemnon) he devours his people, we may be told in extenuation that, like Charles I., he is a good husband and a model father.

Grant Allen
What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite.

Grant Allen
Nature as a whole is intensely utilitarian; each kind fights for its own hand alone, and regards as little the feelings of other kinds as the fisherman regards the feelings of herrings, or as the fishmonger minds the objection of lobsters to be boiled alive for our human convenience.

Grant Allen
To the world at large, the aphides, as we call them, are mere nameless nuisances pests that infest our choicest plants; to the eye of the naturalist, they are a marvelous and deeply interesting group of animals, with one of the oddest pedigrees, one of the queerest biographies, known to science.

Grant Allen
Every plant and every animal has a long history of its own, and that this history leads us on through a wonderful series of continuous metamorphoses compared with which Daphne's or Arethusa's were mere single episodes.

Grant Allen