"The geologist takes up the history of the……" — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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• The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.… — Joseph Addison
• The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and… — James Buchan
• The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,… — Ben Jonson
• Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the… — Edward Joseph Young
• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of… — John Ruskin
• In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough… — Janet Morris
• History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,… — Richard Kirwan
• With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting… — William Buckland
• Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of… — Confucius

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