John Joly Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by John Joly:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-joly-quotes/#112a3122

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
~John Joly


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-joly-quotes/#6af7c000

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-joly-quotes/#f423e0be

We live in an epoch of denudation.
~John Joly


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-joly-quotes/#f7dcc5f3

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
~John Joly


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-joly-quotes/#c7b1c609

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