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Joseph LeConte - Elements of geology

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The history of the earth find[s] its consummation, and its interpreter, and its significance, in man.

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Man must be set off not only against the animal kingdom, but against the whole of Nature besides, as an equivalent: Nature the book — the revelation — and man the interpreter.

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We have defined geology as the history of the evolution of the earth. Evolution, therefore, is the central idea of geology. It is this idea alone which makes geology a distinct science.

Joseph LeConte

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Joseph LeConte

Joseph LeConte
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Born: February 26, 1823
Died: July 6, 1901 (aged 78)
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