Accounts Quote by Charles Lyell

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he…

— Charles Lyell

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…

— Charles Lyell

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity…

— Charles Lyell

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced…

— Charles Lyell

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

— Charles Lyell

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in…

— Charles Lyell

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There…

— Charles Lyell

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin…

— Charles Lyell

Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied…

— Charles Lyell

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human…

— Charles Lyell

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest…

— Charles Lyell

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium…

— Charles Lyell