"It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized." (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural, History of Animals" Vol. 2, 1809)
"Imagination is one of the finest faculties of man: it ennobles and elevates his thoughts and relieves him from the domination of minute details; and when it reaches a very high development, it makes him superior to the great majority of other people." (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural, History of Animals" Vol. 2, 1809)
"Man is condemned to exhaust all possible errors when he examines any set of facts before he recognizes the truth. (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural, History of Animals", 1809)
"Reason is not a faculty; still less is it a torch or entity of any kind; but it is a special condition of the individual's intellectual faculties; a condition that is altered by experience, gradually improves and controls the judgments, according as the individual exercises his intellect." (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural, History of Animals" Vol. 2, 1809)
"All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory." (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck)
"The most important discoveries of the laws, methods and progress of Nature have nearly always sprung from the examination of the smaller objects which she contains." (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck)
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