"The age of the earth was thus increased……" — William Johnson Sollas

The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score… - William Johnson Sollas

"The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow."

— William Johnson Sollas

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2 Quotes by William Johnson Sollas

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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand,…

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