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John Joly
Irish
Scientist
About the author
We live in an epoch of denudation.
John Joly,
Irish
Scientist
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
John Joly,
Irish
Scientist
#Universe
#Results
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
John Joly,
Irish
Scientist
#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,
Irish
Scientist
#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,
Irish
Scientist
#Earth
#Universe
#Age
#Space