"Language is fossil Poetry." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Language is fossil Poetry."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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More Fossil Quotes
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one of 226 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable…
— Jimmy Carter
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By…
— Georges Cuvier
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins,…
— Jacques Monod
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We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population…
— Ernst Mayr
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the…
— Lynn Margulis
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The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the…
— Simon Conway Morris
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In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order…
— Earnest Hooton
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Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do.…
— Richard Dawkins
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