AI: 🐊 Mary Anning, 🦕 Richard Owen, 🐉 Othniel Charles Marsh, and 🦖 Edward Drinker Cope Compared: Early Dinosaur Bones 🦴
“I beg your pardon, there are no such things as fancy stones. They are all organized substances—petrified bones of animals that existed before the Flood.” — Mary Anning, her correction to a customer.
“The greatest anatomist of his age… He loved Nature and Art, and he built this [London Natural History] Museum to be their home.” — Richard Owen
“Bone Wars”, Othniel Charles Cope versus Edward Drinker Marsh:
“He [Cope] has repeatedly published as his own discoveries the work of others, and has shown himself capable of the most flagrant violations of scientific etiquette and truth.”
“Marsh is simply a scientific political wire-puller… He is not a naturalist in any proper sense of the word. He has published very little work that is his own.”