Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
- John Joly
Part, Plays, Our, Duration
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
- John Joly
Past, Rivers, Built, Base
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
- John Joly
Universe, Forces, Most, Motions
We live in an epoch of denudation.
- John Joly
Live, Epoch
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
- John Joly
Beautiful, Most, Sights, Sea
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