William Buckland Quotes

Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

William Buckland

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• Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Evidence
  • Extraordinary

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Things
  • Evidence

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Books
  • Evidence
  • Documentary

• In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Research
  • Evidence
  • Details

• That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Past
  • Technology
  • Evidence

• There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Evidence
  • Direct
  • Sat

• I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Evidence
  • Bubble
  • Equity

• The most recent evidence ... suggests that the economic expansion remains on track.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Evidence
  • Track
  • Expansion

• The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

  

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Up
  • History
  • Earth

• Whatever relevance such evidence may have to prove other elements of plaintiff's case, it does not have anything to do with the issues presented by the president's and Ferguson's motions for summary judgment. I.e., whether plaintiff herself was the victim of alleged quid pro quo or a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, whether the president and Ferguson conspired to deprive her of her civil rights, or whether she suffered emotional distress so severe in nature that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Work
  • May
  • She

• The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Man
  • Thinks
  • Efficient

• Unfortunately for Mr. McClellan, the evidence that Mr. Bush's chat with the soldiers was rehearsed and rehearsed within an inch of its life was all on tape.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Life
  • Evidence
  • Soldiers

• There is prima facie evidence of violation of clauses relating to use of undue influence and agents/agency commission, as contained in the contracts of Anti-Material Rifles (AMR) signed in 2002.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Evidence
  • Violation
  • Commission

• Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Evidence
  • Torture
  • Untrustworthy

• True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Speech
  • Attributes
  • True And False

• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Judge

• The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Criticism
  • Evidence
  • Rationalist

• The second thing that we have to do is to make sure that this doesn't happen again. And we need to look into the investigation of exactly what happened, whose responsibility, so if we move forward, we don't have this problem again.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Investigation

• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Sleep
  • Blessing
  • Prosperity

• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World
  • True

• When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight... The less they know the surer they are about it.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Running
  • Scientist
  • Limelight

• Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

  

  William Buckland
  • Evidence
  • Attributes
  • Efficient