Matter Quotes by James Hutton

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

— James Hutton

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

— James Hutton

If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety…

— James Hutton

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the…

— James Hutton

We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event…

— James Hutton

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

— James Hutton

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

— James Hutton

The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

— James Hutton

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed…

— James Hutton

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without…

— James Hutton

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully…

— James Hutton

As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we…

— James Hutton