Henry Fairfield Osborn quotes
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“The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.”
-- Henry Fairfield OsbornSource : Henry Fairfield Osborn (1900). “Collected papers”
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“Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.”
-- Henry Fairfield OsbornSource : Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921). “Collected papers”
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“I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.”
-- Henry Fairfield Osborn
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“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”
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