Georges Cuvier Quotes - Page 2

• If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Men, Darkness

  Georges Cuvier (Barón, (), Robert Jameson (1817). “Essay on the Theory of the Earth”, p.3

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• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Mean, Past

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