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The fact that we are able to classify organisms at all in accordance with the structural characteristics which they present, is due to the fact of their being related by descent.

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All true science deals with speculation and hypothesis, and acknowledges as its most valued servant - its indispensable ally and helpmeet - that which our German friends l call "Phantasie" and we "the Imagination."

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Nature, it has been said, gives no reply to a general inquiry - she must be interrogated by questions which already contain the answer she is to give; in other words, the observer can only observe that which he is led by hypothesis to look for: the experimenter can only obtain the result which his experiment is designed to obtain.

Ray Lankester

Ray Lankester

Ray Lankester

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Born: May 15, 1847

Died: August 13, 1929 (aged 82)

Bio: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester KCB FRS was a British zoologist.

Known for:

Extinct Animals (1905)
Science from an easy chair (1907)
Diversions of a naturalist (1915)
The Kingdom Of Man (1907)
Secrets of earth and sea (1920)

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