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

- James Hutton

We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, …

- James Hutton

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

- 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, th…

- James Hutton

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 …

- James Hutton

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, …

- James Hutton

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 renov…

- James Hutton

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

- James Hutton

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by whic…

- James Hutton