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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
John Muir
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
Lydia M. Child
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The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.
Lydia M. Child
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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
Herbert Hoover
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The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
John Playfair
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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
Robert Ballard
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Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
Herbert Hoover
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...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.
Charles Darwin
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The very foundation of our science is only an inference far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.
William Morris Davis
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A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
George Mercer Dawson
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There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
Charles Darwin
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...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—
Charles Darwin
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Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.
James E. Talmage
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The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.
Andrey Kapitsa
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
John Muir
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem
Robert Smithson
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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.
Charles Darwin
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
Harrison Schmitt
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
Gottfried Leibniz
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We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.
Herbert Hoover
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