Jean-Andre Deluc quotes

“I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.”
-- Jean-Andre Deluc

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“We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.”
-- Jean-Andre Deluc

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“It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.”
-- Jean-Andre Deluc

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“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”

“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...”

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”

“We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.”

“I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.”

“In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.”

Source : James Croll (1875). “Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate”, p.4

“I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.”

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”

Source : "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.

“But monument themselves memorials need.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38