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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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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted…
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
— Jacques Barzun
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the…
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I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
— William Blake
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
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Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with…
— Charles Darwin
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The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an…
— Marcello Malpighi
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We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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…
— Charles Lyell
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One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of…
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