Quote#Nature
Direct observation of the testimony of the earth ... is a matter of…
Quote byHenry Fairfield Osborn · 1857–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Evolution and Religion", The New York Times (5 March 1922), p. 91; written in response to an article a few days earlier in which William Jennings Bryan challenged the theory of evolution as lacking proof..
English (original)
Direct observation of the testimony of the earth ... is a matter of the laboratory, of the field naturalist, of indefatigable digging among the ancient archives of the earth's history.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn
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