"A map of the moon... should be in……" — James Dwight Dana
"A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces."
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11 Quotes by James Dwight Dana
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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…
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to…
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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him…
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Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the…
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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and…
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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…
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more,…
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral…
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