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“I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.”

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William J. Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was born on August 19, 1946. His presidency was marked by economic prosperity and a series of achievements in domestic and foreign policy. Despite controversies, including a sex scandal and impeachment, Clinton's economic legacy and foreign policy initiatives continue to be widely discussed and studied. more

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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.”

Said Science Knowledge Keys Intellectual Lows Consequence Thirds Kingdoms Employment Geology

Book:Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

Source: Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

“I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'”

World Years Science Natural Millions Subjects Fields Ignorance Battle Mass Evidence Ignorant Geology Natural Science

Author:James A. Garfield

“I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.”

Earth Science Monument Geology Tracing

Author:Jean-Andre Deluc

“In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.”

Science Effects Accounts Geology

Book:Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

Source: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

“In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane men-e.g. that they have their foundations in truth-and are not like the dreams of the sick, formed by strange combinations of phantasms, contrary to nature and therefore incredible.”

Men Dream Science Strange Sick Foundation Incredibles Contrary Combination Sane Hypothesis Our Dreams Geology Conjecture

Author:Scipione Breislak

“It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning subsequently to this period; and where is that beginning to be found, but in the will and fiat of an intelligent and all-wise Creator?”

Science Found Existence Wise Periods Intelligent Creator Geology

Book:The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

Source: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

“Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.”

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Author:John Tuzo Wilson

“My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC. Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.”

“One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.”

“If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Children Young Opportunity President Doors Military College Vote Barack Immigrants

Author:William J. Clinton