John Playfair Quotes
7 quotes
in 248 categories
-
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and…
-
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own…
-
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
-
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in…
-
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted…
-
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished…
-
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
Browse John Playfair Quotes by Category