John Ayrton Paris Quote

To discover order and intelligence in scenes of apparent wildness and confusion, is the pleasing task of the geological enquirer...


On A Recent Formation of Sandstone, Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Volume 1, 1818 (p. 19)


To discover order and intelligence in scenes of apparent wildness and confusion, is the pleasing task of the geological enquirer...

To discover order and intelligence in scenes of apparent wildness and confusion, is the pleasing task of the geological enquirer...

To discover order and intelligence in scenes of apparent wildness and confusion, is the pleasing task of the geological enquirer...

To discover order and intelligence in scenes of apparent wildness and confusion, is the pleasing task of the geological enquirer...