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Creation Quotes by Charles Lyell
- Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
- Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the…
- 'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
- The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world…
- The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up…
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- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an… — Gary Bauer
- Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However,… — Bob Beauprez
- President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the… — Bob Beauprez