James Hutton Quotes

The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

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.