Quotes by John Joly

• We live in an epoch of denudation.
• All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
• That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
• The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
• Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.