John Joly Quotes

"All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute."
- John Joly
(Related: Results, Universe)

"That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit."
- John Joly
(Related: Nature, Sea)

"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
(Related: Past, Rivers)

"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
(Related: Age, Earth, Space, Universe)