"In reply, I can only plead that a……" — Charles Lyell
"In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation."
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37 Quotes by Charles Lyell
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
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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…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
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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…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
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More Contradict Quotes
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a…
— David Chalmers
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
— Jonathan Swift
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free…
— Carl Sagan
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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