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Geological Quotes by James Dwight Dana
- Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,…
- A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration…
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- The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
- I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz
- We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
- Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould
- Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick
- The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth
- There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell
- So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the… — Charles Lyell
- It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence… — Fred Hoyle
- Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it… — Unknown Author
- Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana
- Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Unknown Author