Ancient Quote by John Playfair

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries…

— Georges Cuvier

“GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up…

— Ambrose Bierce

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient…

— Georges Cuvier

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do…

— Roderick Murchison

The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the…

— Hugh Miller

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists…

— Henry David Thoreau

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must…

— Charles Darwin

“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to form the…

— Amadeus William Grabau

In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their…

— Anonymous

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

“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

The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed…

— Torbern Bergman