Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel Quote

It does not come within the domain of geology to investigate the origin of the universe and of solar and planetary systems. Yet such investigations are so closely associated with the origin and earliest history of the earth that the results attained by astronomical researches have at all times exerted an influence upon the views of geologists.


Translated by Maria M. Ogilvie-Gordon, History of Geology and Paleontology


It does not come within the domain of geology to investigate the origin of the universe and of solar and planetary systems. Yet such investigations...

It does not come within the domain of geology to investigate the origin of the universe and of solar and planetary systems. Yet such investigations...

It does not come within the domain of geology to investigate the origin of the universe and of solar and planetary systems. Yet such investigations...

It does not come within the domain of geology to investigate the origin of the universe and of solar and planetary systems. Yet such investigations...