George Julius Poulett Scrope Quotes

• The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• No podemos ver cómo la evidencia proporcionada por el incuestionable desarrollo progresivo de la existencia organizada, coronada como lo ha sido por la reciente creación de la mayor maravilla de la tierra, el HOMBRE, puede ser dejada de lado, o su resultado aparentemente necesario retenido por un momento. Cuando el Sr. Lyell encuentre, como un amigo ingenioso informó recientemente que se había encontrado, una cuchara de plata en grauvaca, o una locomotora en esquisto de mica, entonces, pero no antes, nos inscribiremos como discípulos de la Teoría Cíclica de las Formaciones Geológicas.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Witty, Science, Men

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• Para explicar estos cambios, los geólogos han recurrido generalmente a la suposición de que se han producido diversas catástrofes violentas y extraordinarias, cataclismos o revoluciones generales en el estado físico de la superficie terrestre.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Science, Earth, Revolution

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• The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Book, Science, Fit

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• As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Science, Ideas, Imagination

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