Accounts Quote by Granville Penn
“Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science.”
![“Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.” quote by Charles Lapworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/169/charles-lapworth-52504_concerned_nothing-perhaps-has-so-retarded-the-rece_2061407.jpg)
