"In the course of this short tour, I……" — Charles Lyell
"In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants."
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37 Quotes by Charles Lyell
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
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