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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 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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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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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…
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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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Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and…
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The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life…
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished…
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What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in…
— Carl Sagan
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If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile…
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Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
— Ambrose Bierce
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will…
— William Cowper
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What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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