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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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... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form.…
— Louis Pasteur
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Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the…
— Jerry Sabloff
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not…
— Alfred Kinsey
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It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living…
— Metrodorus of Chios
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Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid…
— Federico Fellini
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come…
— Yves Klein
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A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
— Joseph Roth
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The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to…
— Marston Bates
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