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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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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…
— E F Schumacher
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from…
— Barbara Walters
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…
— Karl Popper
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I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear…
— Jean Larteguy
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Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your…
— Thomas S. Monson
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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown.…
— Paul von Hindenburg
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We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles,…
— Bob Brown
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When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half…
— Louise Brooks
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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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History does not unfold: it piles up.
— Robert Adams
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