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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.
Charles Lyell
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Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.
Charles Lyell
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I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Charles Darwin
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin
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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?
Herbert Hoover
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The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
Gottfried Leibniz
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
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The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
Charles Darwin
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us
Robert Smithson
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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
Charles Darwin
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner
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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
Lydia M. Child
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
Gottfried Leibniz
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
Charles Darwin
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There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.
Herbert Hoover
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Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.
Wen Jiabao
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The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
Louis Agassiz
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carl Linnaeus
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
Georges Cuvier
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The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in the course of my methods of observation. If I have obtained some new results it is to this that I owe it.
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand
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Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.
Lydia M. Child
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One of the governor's concerns: This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?
John Hickenlooper
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