Causes Quote by Henry David Thoreau

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to…

— Charles Kellogg

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my…

— Charles Lyell

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found…

— John Playfair

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear…

— Anonymous

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

— M. King Hubbert

Things that change history tend to be organized.

— David Brooks

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

— Will Durant

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink