In pioneer days, when the sciences were struggling for a place in the sun, it fell to geology to pull up and set back the stakes that man had struck to mark the beginning of the earth. This seemed to many a moving of sacred landmarks; to others it seemed a wanton use of the secrets of the cemetery of nature's dead.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1922, The Age of the Earth (p. 241)

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin Quotes

In pioneer days, when the sciences were struggling for a place in the sun, it fell to geology to pull up and set back the stakes that man had struck...

In pioneer days, when the sciences were struggling for a place in the sun, it fell to geology to pull up and set back the stakes that man had struck...

In pioneer days, when the sciences were struggling for a place in the sun, it fell to geology to pull up and set back the stakes that man had struck...

In pioneer days, when the sciences were struggling for a place in the sun, it fell to geology to pull up and set back the stakes that man had struck...