Uniformitarian Quotes

4 quotes by 4 authors

• If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
• With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
• The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell
• Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,… — Charles Lapworth

Who Wrote These Uniformitarian Quotes

4 authors contributed a total of 4 Uniformitarian Quotes as follows:

• 1 Uniformitarian Quote by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• 1 Uniformitarian Quote by William Whewell
• 1 Uniformitarian Quote by Charles Lapworth
• 1 Uniformitarian Quote by William Johnson Sollas