John Ray Quotes

November 29, 1627 – January 17, 1705

John Ray (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history.

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

Title of a book (1691)

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He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

John Ray
— John Ray, On Creation.

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I do not know who first emphasized the need for a clear understanding of the sense in which the term species is to be applied. In the second half of the seventeenth century Ray shows some degree of concern on this matter. In the introduction to the Historia Plantarum, 1686, he discusses some of the difficulties and lays down the principle that varieties which can be produced from the seed of the same plant are to be regarded as belonging to one species, being, I believe, the first to suggest this definition.

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— William Bateson, Problems in Genetics (1913).

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

John Ray
— English naturalist (1627 - 1705)

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There are two thousand of them constantly gliding back and forth through the canals, as noiseless as a ghost and as graceful as a swan .

John Ray
— A Trip Abroad: Sketches of Men and Manners, People and Places, in Europe, Edwards, Broughton, 1882 , p.107

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