"Geology has shared the fate of other infant……" — William Buckland
"Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator."
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William Buckland
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12 Quotes by William Buckland
William Buckland has 12 quotes on this site.
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes…
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Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which…
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It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must…
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The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments…
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The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it…
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The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same…
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present…
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The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which…
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No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human…
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More Auxiliary Quotes
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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the…
— Remy de Gourmont
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No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis…
— Imre Lakatos
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But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports;…
— Noah Webster
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes…
— William Buckland
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Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the…
— James Madison
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the…
— Boris Brasol
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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become…
— Otto Schily
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Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member.…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind.…
— Edna O'Brien
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The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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