Causes Quote by John Playfair

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today,…

— Horace-Benedict de Saussure

[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

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions…

— William Buckland

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á…

— Charles Lyell

“To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The recognition of…

— Hellmut and Richard Welhelm

Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into…

— Charles Lyell

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former, aided by…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

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