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Successive Quotes by Charles Lyell
- Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the…
- There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to…
- 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 higher mammalia bordering…
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- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our… — Marcel Proust
- Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison
- When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar
- The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,… — Gordon W. Allport
- Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it… — Charles Lyell
- There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell
- We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which… — Charles Darwin
- Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.… — Victor Hugo