Jean-André Deluc Quotes

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We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

Jean-André Deluc

It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

Jean-André Deluc

The mind is at all times so eager to draw inferences, that it will not stop to collect all the data necessary for deducing legitimate conclusions, respecting the objects on which it is employed, but is not unfrequently rash in proportion to the importance of the subject, while this very circumstance ought to preclude all precipitate decisions.

Jean-André Deluc

Of all the sciences, the most extensive and the most complex is that which was termed GEOLOGY, long before it was entitled to the name.

Jean-André Deluc

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.

Jean-André Deluc