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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata…
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,…
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
— John Herschel
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We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as…
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Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in…
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I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that…
— Alfred Marshall
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The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers…
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It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic…
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We…
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Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had…
— John Playfair
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