Thomas Burnet Quotes

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We are almost the last Posterity of the first Men, and faln [sic] into the dying Age of the World; by what footsteps, or by what guide, we trace back our way to those first Ages, and the first order of things?

Thomas Burnet

There is no Chase so pleasant, methinks, as to drive a Thought, by good conduct, from one end of the World to the other; and never to lose sight of it till it fall into Eternity, where all things are lost as to our knowledge.

Thomas Burnet

'Tis a dangerous thing to engage the authority of scripture in disputes about the natural world, in opposition to reason; lest time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made scripture to assert … We are not to suppose that any truth concerning the natural world can be an enemy to religion; for truth cannot be an enemy to truth, God is not divided against himself.

Thomas Burnet

There is nothing in Nature more shapeless and ill-figur'd than an old Rock or a Mountain, and all that variety that is among them is but the various modes of irregularity; so as you cannot make a better character of them, in short, than to say they are of all forms and figures, except regular.

Thomas Burnet

Thomas Burnet

Thomas Burnet

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Born: 1635

Died: September 27, 1715 (aged 80)

Bio: Thomas Burnet was an English theologian and writer on cosmogony.

Known for:

The theory of the earth
Archæologiæ philosophicæ
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time;
Remarks on John Locke

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