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Dr Thomas Condon

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Dr Thomas Condon

Birth
Ireland
Death
Feb 1907 (aged 84)
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Thomas Condon was a famous US paleontologist and geologist, whose work focused mainly in Oregon. He became the first Oregon state geologist as well the first professor of geology at the University of Oregon. Condon Hall at University of Oregon is named for him, as well as Thomas Condon Paleontology Center in Dayville, Oregon.


Characteristic Sayings of Professor Condon:

"The Holy Spirit is a scientific necessity, a constant emission from the Being of. God, affecting human character just as the sun affects the crude starch of an unripe peach, transforming it into sugar, and making the rich, luscious, perfected fruit. The human brain has been gradually evolved to prepare it to receive these rays of divine light, and the human spiritual life is but the crowning of preparation."

"Sin is being behind in God's plan of progress – being like the tiger and the hog, when God wants all human beings to leave the animal nature behind."

"God wants, commands you to use your own judgment in the light of this twentieth century, to tell you what is right and beautiful and true. I believe in inspiration as a living force now."
One of several volumes of different books of the New Testament was found in his room at the University, and in explanation he said: "I like to have two or three of them scattered in my room, for nothing at all but for their fragrance."

"The vision of things to be done may come a long time before the way of doing them appears clear, but woe to him who distrusts the vision."
Thomas Condon was a famous US paleontologist and geologist, whose work focused mainly in Oregon. He became the first Oregon state geologist as well the first professor of geology at the University of Oregon. Condon Hall at University of Oregon is named for him, as well as Thomas Condon Paleontology Center in Dayville, Oregon.


Characteristic Sayings of Professor Condon:

"The Holy Spirit is a scientific necessity, a constant emission from the Being of. God, affecting human character just as the sun affects the crude starch of an unripe peach, transforming it into sugar, and making the rich, luscious, perfected fruit. The human brain has been gradually evolved to prepare it to receive these rays of divine light, and the human spiritual life is but the crowning of preparation."

"Sin is being behind in God's plan of progress – being like the tiger and the hog, when God wants all human beings to leave the animal nature behind."

"God wants, commands you to use your own judgment in the light of this twentieth century, to tell you what is right and beautiful and true. I believe in inspiration as a living force now."
One of several volumes of different books of the New Testament was found in his room at the University, and in explanation he said: "I like to have two or three of them scattered in my room, for nothing at all but for their fragrance."

"The vision of things to be done may come a long time before the way of doing them appears clear, but woe to him who distrusts the vision."


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