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Edward Forbes Quotes:

Ocupation: Naturalist

Life: February 12, 1815 - November 18, 1854

Birthday: February 12

Death: November 18

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

- Edward Forbes

source: Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

topic: Ocean, Space, Research, Exhibits, Centralization, Ocean Exploration, Geologic Time, Geological Time

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