"To trace the series of these revolutions, to……" — John Playfair
"To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH."
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John Playfair
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7 Quotes by John Playfair
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer…
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Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the…
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Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin,…
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The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
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