"The older the layers, the more each of……" — Georges Cuvier
"The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances."
—
Georges Cuvier
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
23 Quotes by Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier has 23 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
-
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By…
-
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of…
-
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
-
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are…
-
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The…
-
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the…
-
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is…
-
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet…
-
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive…
-
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these…
-
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and…
See all 23 quotes by Georges Cuvier »
More Distances Quotes
This quote is filed under Distances Quotes,
one of 153 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
-
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
-
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
-
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
-
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional…
— Roger Ebert
-
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is…
— Dalai Lama
-
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have…
— Richard P. Feynman
-
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands…
— Goswami Kriyananda
-
Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has…
— Lyman Spitzer
-
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we…
— Unknown Author
-
Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
— Alex Ferguson
See all 153 Distances Quotes »