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Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,… — Charles Lapworth
Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from… — Lorenz Oken
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are… — Plutarch
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized,… — Wyndham Lewis
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there… — Benjamin Disraeli
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace… — Richard Dawkins
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed… — Charles Darwin
Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which… — Mao Zedong
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of… — Mao Zedong
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first… — Mao Zedong
There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place. — Tom Seaver
Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch. — Warren Spahn
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. — John D. MacDonald
You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control… — Napoleon Hill
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by… — Bertrand Russell
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed… — Thomas Jefferson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to… — Leonardo da Vinci

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