“I resolved to devote my leisure moments to the investigation of the "Organic remains of a former world"”
The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex (1822)
Context: Upon fixing my residence at Lewes, I resolved to devote my leisure moments to the investigation of the "Organic remains of a former world"...
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British scientist and obstetrician 1790–1852Related quotes
Speech at the National Press Club (2004)
August 22, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
"What has the BBC come to? Toilets, that's what", Daily Telegraph, 14 March 2002, p. 29.
2000s, 2002
“Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.”
No. 5.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXXII : Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
Context: To organize Anarchy, is the problem which the revolutionists have and will eternally have to resolve. It is the rock of Sisyphus that will always fall back upon them. To exist a single instant, they are and always will be by fatality reduced to improvise a despotism without other reason of existence than necessity, and which, consequently, is violent and blind as Necessity. We escape from the harmonious monarchy of Reason, only to fall under the irregular dictatorship of Folly.
Sometimes superstitious enthusiasms, sometimes the miserable calculations of the materialist instinct have led astray the nations, and God at last urges the world on toward believing Reason and reasonable Beliefs.
We have had prophets enough without philosophy, and philosophers without religion; the blind believers and the skeptics resemble each other, and are as far the one as the other from the eternal salvation.