#covered

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#been #before #believed #bible #conflicts

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#dust #every #forgetting #minute #mourning

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#broken #changed #country #covered #direction

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. ↗

— Michael Behe

#biological #century #could #discovered #elegant

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#anything #astronomers #closest #discovered #empty

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#could #creator #discipline #discovered #gift

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#express #found #inside #must #nobody

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#experiences #hear #including #injuries #meet

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive. ↗

— Toni Collette

#covered #dirt #hot #how #i

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#earlier #granted #most #readily #remained