Attempting Quote by Charles Lyell

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my…

— Charles Lyell

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the…

— William Morris Davis

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the…

— Charles Lapworth

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be…

— James Croll

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting…

— Bernhard von Cotta

If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the…

— William Johnson Sollas

“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former, aided by…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn