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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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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,…
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an…
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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
— Robert Delaunay
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
— Immanuel Kant
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What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those…
— August Macke
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
— John Polkinghorne
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As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour…
— C. D. Broad
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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously…
— Robert Nozick
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in…
— Werner Heisenberg
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