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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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We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
— Virgil
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
— Henri Poincare
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ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…
— Galileo Galilei
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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…
— Charles Lyell
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there…
— Tycho Brahe
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
— Laura Dern
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The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.
— Randy Savage
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You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart.
— Unknown Author
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
— Imogen Cunningham
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