Mary Somerville Quote

The traces of extreme antiquity perpetually occurring to the geologist give that information of the origin of things which we in vain look for in the other parts of the universe. They date the beginning of time [and] show that creation is the work of Him with whom "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years."

Mechanism of the Heavens, Preliminary Dissertation (p. 36), John Murray. 1831