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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt…
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have…
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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the…
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Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.
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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the…
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Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.
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The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again,…
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped…
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with…
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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or…
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,…
— Carl Sagan
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
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The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again,…
— James Dwight Dana
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Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
— Peter Ackroyd
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but…
— Jerry Saltz
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from…
— Muriel Barbery
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My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond…
— Susan Kay
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You look at me you think I'm like a stuck up bitch, but yet, like, veterinarian, like that's my soul, like I…
— Snooki
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