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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…
— Henri Poincare
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
— Charles Lyell
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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been…
— John von Neumann
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if…
— Plato
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew…
— Thomas Malthus
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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than…
— Friedrich List
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It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
— Unknown Author
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