"It has been long considered possible to explain……" — Georges Cuvier
"It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works."
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Georges Cuvier
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23 Quotes by Georges Cuvier
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is…
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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet…
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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive…
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and…
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