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Charles Lyell has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a…
— Samuel Johnson
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The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through…
— Mel Smith
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they…
— Boris Johnson
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its…
— Claude Monet
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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene…
— Charles Lyell
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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren…
— John Masefield
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
— John Aubrey
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I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a…
— Ian Anderson
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