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• The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
• It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we…
• At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole…
• Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
• It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
• In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of…
• The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of…
• My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to…
• It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly…
• Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on…
• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing…
• It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make…

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