Irish - Scientist | November 1, 1857 - December 8, 1933
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
John Joly
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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.
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We live in an epoch of denudation.
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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.
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All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
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