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William Buckland
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“Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.”
William Buckland (1784–1856) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies (1825) by Granville Penn, p. 8
“Life to each individual is a scene of continued feasting in a region of plenty; and when unexpected death arrests its course, it repays with small interest the large debt which it has contracted to the common fund of animal nutrition, from whence the materials of its body have been derived. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth and the bosom of the deep with endless successions of life and happiness.”
William Buckland (1784–1856) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1841), p. 109
“Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.”
William Buckland (1784–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Age of the World : Moses to Darwin (1959) by Francis C. Haber, p. 221
“The taste of mole was the most repulsive I knew until I tasted a bluebottle [fly].”
William Buckland (1784–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Violinist's Thumb 2012 by Sam Kean, p. 204
“I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king.”
William Buckland (1784–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Violinist's Thumb 2012 by Sam Kean, p. 233