It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".


The nature of the stratigraphical record (ed. 1993)

D. V. Ager Quotes

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: Their most serious error was to...

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: Their most serious error was to...

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: Their most serious error was to...

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: Their most serious error was to...