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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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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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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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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit…
— Je Tsongkhapa
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From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind…
— Ramana Maharshi
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we…
— Michel Foucault
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The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,…
— Richard Shusterman
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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
— Will Rogers
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom…
— Naomi Klein
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Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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