was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
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.
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Really Charles, people will think-... Charles Foster Kane: -what I tell them to think.
Emily Monroe Norton Kane: He happens to be the president, Charles, not you. Charles Foster Kane: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days.
Walter Parks Thatcher: You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles. Charles Foster Kane: You're too old to be called anything else.
[John meets Charles' niece] Nash: She's so small. Charles: Well, she's young, John. That's how they come.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.
Farm to table is a personal choice.
I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.
I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
I never hesitated. I did what had to be done.
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
