Top 9 James Hutton Quotes
#1. The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
James Hutton
#2. In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
James Hutton
#3. The globe of this earth ... [is] ... not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.
James Hutton
#4. A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.
James Hutton
#5. What more can we require? Nothing but time.
James Hutton
#6. [It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
James Hutton
#7. With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.
James Hutton
#8. Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
James Hutton
#9. The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
James Hutton
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