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Time Quotes by Charles Lyell
- [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views…
- The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our…
- It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected…
- The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world…
- The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up…
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- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle