Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts.


Sections & Views, Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena, Preface (p. iv), Treuttel & Wurtz. 1830

Henry De la Beche Quotes

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which...

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which...

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which...

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which...