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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.
Georges Cuvier
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
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There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.
Carl Linnaeus
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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
Lydia M. Child
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Georges Cuvier
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Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.
James E. Talmage
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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
Carl Linnaeus
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Robert Smithson
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There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.
Carl Linnaeus
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I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Charles Darwin
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Prosperity is just around the corner.
Herbert Hoover
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
Charles Darwin
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There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy, making it easier for entrepreneurs to start jobs, making it easier for businesses to grow and create more jobs. That has historically been the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party.
John Hickenlooper
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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Robert Smithson
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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
John Muir
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao
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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
Georges Cuvier
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
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The power of imagination is infinite.
John Muir
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
Charles Darwin
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Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell
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We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Adam Sedgwick
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