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12 quotes by Charles Lyell

This article's lead section may not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. (February 2014) Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of...
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised... →

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In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much... →

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So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of... →

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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect... →

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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the... →

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Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high... →

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In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and... →

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When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had... →

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No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to... →

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That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European... →

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