Characteristics Quote by Alfred Wegener

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to…

— Hans Sloane

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire…

— William Buckland

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight…

— G.K. Chesterton

The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any…

— David George Hogarth

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record…

— Robert Winston

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the…

— William Morris Davis

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that…

— Anonymous

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the…

— Nassau William Senior

It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled…

— Georges Cuvier

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts…

— Thomas Huxley

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

— George Gaylord Simpson