Quotes George Cuvier

All solid parts of the earth therefore owe their origin to l...

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for th...

For a long time we have accepted only two events, two period...

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the co...

In my work on Fossil Bones, I set myself the task of identif...

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was ...

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the hi...

No doubt, the European traveler does not easily cross the va...

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered t...

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those ...

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially whe...

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over ...

The pole of the earth moves in a circle around the pole of t...

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one move...

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form ou...

Thus, life on this earth has often been disturbed by dreadfu...

We know that in the midst of such variations in the nature o...

When a volcano announces its presence, after some tremors, s...