The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from…

- Roderick Murchison

During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole ra…

- Roderick Murchison

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

- Roderick Murchison

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, wh…

- Roderick Murchison

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

- Roderick Murchison

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands…

- Roderick Murchison

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:-…

- Roderick Murchison