"Geological time is not money." — Mark Twain

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• The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that… — Louis Agassiz
• We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient… — Stephen Jay Gould
• Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man… — Adam Sedgwick
• The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon… — Charles Lapworth
• There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable… — Charles Lyell
• So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence… — Charles Lyell
• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no… — Fred Hoyle
• Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological… — Unknown Author
• Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought… — James Dwight Dana
• Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,… — Unknown Author

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