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Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

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It is not altogether pleasant to deal with a subject in regard to which the domain of our ignorance is so broad; but if we are optimists we may be comforted by the reflection that the geologists of this generation, at least, will have no occasion like Alexander, to lament a dearth of worlds to conquer.

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It is the natural and legitimate ambition of a properly constituted geologist to see a glacier, witness an eruption and feel an earthquake.

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The man who produces but one [hypothesis] cherishes and champions that one as his own, and is blind to its faults. With such men, the testing of alternative hypotheses is accomplished only through controversy. Crucial observations are warped by prejudice, and the triumph of truth is delayed.

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In the domain of the world's knowledge there is no infallibility.

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Grove Karl Gilbert

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Born: May 6, 1843
Died: May 1, 1918 (aged 74)
Bio: Grove Karl Gilbert, known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.
Known for:
  1. Lake Bonneville (1890)
  2. An Introduction to Physical Geography (1902)
  3. Glaciers and Glaciation (1904)

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