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James Dwight Dana has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt…
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have…
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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the…
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Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.
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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the…
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Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.
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The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again,…
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped…
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with…
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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
— Virginia Woolf
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an…
— Sun Tzu
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Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word…
— Alasdair Gray
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were…
— Thomas Cole
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with…
— James Dwight Dana
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Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up…
— Victor Hugo
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