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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient…
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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most…
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…
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We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty…
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In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since…
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only…
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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species…
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give…
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One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the…
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The great workman of nature is time.
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the…
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last…
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,…
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with…
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