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genius james hutton

James Hutton

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.

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genius james hutton

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

genius james hutton

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

genius james hutton

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

genius james hutton

Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we should be cautious not to attribute to nature, laws which may perhaps be only of our own invention.

genius james hutton

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

genius james hutton

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