Adam Sedgwick

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[Wikipedia] Adam Sedgwick FRS was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Ro

Quotes by Adam Sedgwick

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and…

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Approach

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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a…

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Aim

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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…

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Breeding

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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For…

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Creator

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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

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Cold

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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a…

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Appearance

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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

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Drawing

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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic…

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Action