All Charles Lyell Quotes
- Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of… Antiquity
- When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most… Ape
- The present is the key to the past Inspirational
- It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… Appeared
- That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of… Alluvium
- It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected… Age
- In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori… Accordance
- It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must… Humboldt
- Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant. Analogies
- Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. Accountant
- 'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation. Animal
- The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world… Always Assuming
- The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… Actual
- So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population… Been
- In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect… Arms
- In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. Contradict
- In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. Bones