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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
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...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others. This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.
Charles Darwin
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
John Muir
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Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.
Louis Agassiz
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The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.
Herbert Hoover
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By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.
Humphry Davy
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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.
James Dwight Dana
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With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
Charles Darwin
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir
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[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.
Eduard Suess
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Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Charles Darwin
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
Gottfried Leibniz
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A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.
Robert Smithson
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
Charles Lyell
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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
Herbert Hoover
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The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
Herbert Hoover
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The present is great with the future.
Gottfried Leibniz
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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
Herbert Hoover
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
Charles Darwin
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The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
Charles Darwin
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Night steals on and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.
James Gates Percival
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
Carl Linnaeus
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