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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 of the discoveries…
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
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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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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Well begun is half done.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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