Henry Fairfield Osborn

Quotes

• “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. If Mr. Bryan, with an open heart and mind, would drop all his books and all the disputations among the doctors and study first hand the simple archives of Nature, all his doubts would disappear; he would not lose his religion; he would become an evolutionist.”
• “Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its wonderful message of the creative evolution of man, except the ear of William Jennings Bryan; he alone remains stone-deaf, he alone by his own resounding voice drowns the eternal speech of nature.”
• “But the voice of anatomy, like the voice of all nature, never reaches the mental ear of the Great Commoner. It is the novel province of anatomy to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the structure, the origin and the history of man.”
• “This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth.”
• “We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1857-08-08 ) August 8, 1857, Fairfield , Connecticut, U.S.

Died

November 6, 1935 (1935-11-06) (aged 78), Garrison , New York, U.S.

Education

Princeton University ( BA , PhD )

Spouse

Lucretia Thatcher Perry ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1881 ; died 1930 ) ​

Awards

Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1914) Cullum Geographical Medal (1919) Wollaston Medal (1926) Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1929)

Fields

Geology Paleontology

Institutions

American Museum of Natural History

Doctoral students

William King Gregory

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