Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the origin of mountains, with the origin of mountains left out. — 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
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory… — 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)
