Charles Lapworth Quotes
- Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that…
- Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human…
- The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless…
- Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained,…
- Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,…
- Uniformity and Evolution are one.