“ Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession. Charles Lyell
“ It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the… Charles Lyell
“ Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this c… Charles Lyell
“ Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in succession at such times and in such places as to enable… Charles Lyell
