Roderick Murchison Quotes
- During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another,…
- Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,…
- Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
- Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they…
- We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
- The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to…
- The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the…