Henry De la Beche famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.
-- Henry De la Beche -
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible that the facts first known may be the exceptions to a rule and not the rule itself, and generalisations from these first-known facts, though useful at the time, may be highly mischievous, and impede the progress of the science if retained when it has made some advance.
-- Henry De la Beche
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Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
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The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
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