No one likes change. . . but babies in diapers.
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up. . . . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.
Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.