Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time.… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
