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Sir Gavin de Beer
(1 Nov 1899 - 21 Jun 1972)
English zoologist and morphologist.
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Science Quotes by Sir Gavin de Beer (2)
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.
— Sir Gavin de Beer
'Embryology and Evolution', in G. R. de Beer (ed.), Evolution: Essays on Aspects of Evolutionary Biology presented to Professor E. S. Goodrich on his Seventieth Birthday (1938), 76-7.
But science is the collection of nature's answers.
— Sir Gavin de Beer
Attributed.
