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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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a…
— Andre Gide
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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…
— Charles Lyell
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You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a…
— Charles Krauthammer
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their…
— Edward Abbey
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials…
— Epictetus
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that…
— Loren Eiseley
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg
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To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a…
— David Spangler
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God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience…
— Max Lucado
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Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights…
— Ehud Barak
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