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…

— James Hutton

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

— James Hutton

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

— 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…

— James Hutton

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought…

— James Hutton

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

— James Hutton

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

— James Hutton

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

— James Hutton

When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several…

— James Hutton

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it…

— James Hutton

Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…

— James Hutton

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

— James Hutton

“it is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth. Along”

— James Hutton

A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which…

— James Hutton