"Hutton was... no narrow specialist, wrapped up in the pursuit of one circumscribed section of human inquiry. His mind…"

"If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, …"

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed…"

"We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end."

"Hutton published a landmark treatise, Theory of the Earth, in which he set forth the principle of uniformitarianism: …"

"In a letter to Sir John Hall, he says that he was become very fond of studying the surface of the earth, and was look…"

"Among other advantages... we must reckon that of being able to enjoy, with less interruption, the society of his lite…"

"A good deal of his leisure was now employed in the prosecution of chemical experiments. In one of these experiments..…"

"From the date... when he was yet a very young man, and making excursions on foot through the different counties of En…"

"Few men have entered with better preparation on the arduous task of investigating the true theory of the earth."