Accurate Quote by James Hutton

“Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.”

James Hutton

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There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

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The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

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If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety…

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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the…

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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event…

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In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

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The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

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The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed…

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With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without…

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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully…

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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we…

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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

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