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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.
Charles Darwin
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No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.
James E. Talmage
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Hunger is the mother of anarchy.
Herbert Hoover
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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.
Charles Darwin
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I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.
John Muir
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I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.
Tony Hayward
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
Herbert Hoover
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I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
John Muir
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I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.
Richard Mourdock
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The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.
Hugh Miller
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The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
Charles Darwin
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.
James Hutton
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Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.
Humphry Davy
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The teacher teaches and the students sit and listen or learn passively.
Joseph Barrell
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The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources in the prevention of wasteful practices.
Herbert Hoover
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Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
Athanasius Kircher
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The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
James Hutton
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But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
Charles Darwin
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
John Muir
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Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.
Charles Lyell
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Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
John Muir
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