Geological Time Quotes
11 quotes by 8 authors
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You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an…
— Wallace Stegner
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Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches…
— Edward Forbes
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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is…
— Richard Dawkins
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions…
— Nhat Hanh
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They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it…
— Arundhati Roy
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Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a…
— Michael Crichton
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Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the…
— Richard Dawkins
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Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in…
— Edward Forbes
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Geological time is not money.
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Geological Time Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 11 Geological Time Quotes as follows: