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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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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…
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The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain,…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it…
— Charles Lyell
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Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.
— Theodore Annemann
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Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
— Johann Most
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I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a…
— David Sedaris
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No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you…
— Sylvia Plath
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The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something…
— Herman Melville
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As it is with medicine, or physics, certain laws will always apply when an action is implemented. When your doctor routinely examines…
— Johnny Luckett
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Near the hypothalamus, are pressure points of that, when electrodes are implemented, can cause extreme sexual pleasure. Subjects (especially females) have reported…
— Johnny Luckett
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I love girls that Arabian, Albanian, caucasian. I ride around gettin cranium cause my dick is hard as titanium.
— Big Sean
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