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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young…
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
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The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do…
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in…
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…
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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below,…
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The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his…
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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to…
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,…
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on…
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...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is…
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Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that…
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...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this…
— Werner Gitt
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The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was…
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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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