Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance. — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet. — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth.… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery. — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same through all… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves,… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
![“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or…” quote by James Dwight Dana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0db/james-dwight-dana-34629_bottom_are-coral-reefs-growing-from-the-depths_1275581.jpg)
