Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
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