Behinds Quote by John Dewey

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do…

— Roderick Murchison

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more…

— Karl Marx

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor…

— Cyril Connolly

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor…

— Cyril Connolly

The obscurest epoch is today.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it…

— Anonymous

It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have…

— Jean Sylvain Bailly

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must…

— Charles Darwin