"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
This quote is written / told by Asa Gray between November 18, 1810 and January 30, 1888. He/she was a famous Scientist from USA.
The author also have 21 other quotes.
"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"
"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"