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• Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy
• As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at… — William Buckland
• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions,… — Adam Sedgwick
• Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Unknown Author
• The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose… — Louis Agassiz
• I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it. — Stana Katic
• When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet… — Oliver Goldsmith
• The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to… — James Hutton
• Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like… — Manly Hall
• In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time… — James Henry Breasted
• Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one… — Emma Goldman

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