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• In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I…
• Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for…
• Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in…
• Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic…
• Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic…
• It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was…

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