James Dwight Dana Quotes

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• The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
• Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,…
• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical…
• There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of…
• Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.
• The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will…
• Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.
• The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to…
• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow…
• Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and…
• A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration…

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