Asa Gray Quotes
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
Gray, Asa. Letters of Asa Gray. Edited by Jane Loring Gray, vol. 2, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893, p. 456.
Discussing the possibility of renewing relations with Jordan after it had supported Iraq in the Gulf War, the ambassador wanted an admission of wrongdoing from Jordan.
Asa Gray is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was adamant that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species. He was also strongly opposed to the ideas of hybridization within one generation and special creation in the sense of its not allowing for evolution. He was a strong supporter of Darwin, although Gray's theistic evolution was guided by a Creator.
