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• El hecho de que la Tierra se convirtiera en un período determinado en la residencia de los seres humanos, fue una era en el mundo moral, no en el físico, que nuestro estudio y contemplación de la Tierra, y de las leyes que gobiernan sus producciones animadas, no debe considerarse más a la luz de una perturbación o desviación del sistema, de lo que el descubrimiento de los satélites de Júpiter debe considerarse como un acontecimiento físico en la historia de esos cuerpos celestes, por muy influyentes que hayan llegado a ser desde entonces en el avance del progreso de la sana filosofía entre los hombres.

  Charles Lyell

  Filosofía, Ciencia, Hombres

  Charles Lyell, M. J. S. Rudwick (1990). "Principles of Geology", p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Analogies, Metaphysical

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• Hace tiempo sugerí la hipótesis de que en la cuenca del Támesis hay indicios de un encuentro en el Pleistoceno de una fauna septentrional y meridional.

  Charles Lyell

  Long Ago, Southern, Thames

  Charles Lyell (1873). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man with an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species with Special Reference to Mans First Appearance on the Earth by Charles Lyell”, p.202

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• It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

  Charles Lyell

  Beach, Marine, Scotland

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”, p.47

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• Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

  Charles Lyell

  Men, Discovery, Caves

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

  Charles Lyell

  Europe, Long, Curiosity

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

  Charles Lyell

  Facts, Negative, Valleys

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Perfection, Wish

  Sir Charles Lyell (1845). “Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia”, p.15

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