Edward Forbes

“The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is not a mere jumble of accidents, but an orderly cosmos.”

“He who sees the Alp must have the Alp in his mind.”

“It is the province of a naturalist to adore as well as to admire.”

“Thus, both in space and time, there are mighty laws of distribution, which, though as yet but vaguely comprehended, must be ever present in the naturalist's mind; for they alone give to his science its loftiest import.”

“The sea-bed, like the land, has its hills and valleys, its plains and its precipices.”