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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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I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our…
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which…
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
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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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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern…
— Unknown Author
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If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as…
— Hermann Weyl
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Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern…
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