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In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane men—e.g. that they have their foundations in truth—and are not like the dreams of the sick, formed by strange combinations of phantasms, contrary to nature and therefore incredible.
Scipione Breislak
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Scipione Breislak
Born:
August 17, 1750
Died:
February 15, 1826
(aged 75)
Bio:
Scipione Breislak, Italian geologist of German parentage, was born in Rome in 1748.
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