“Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than this assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.”

About Charles Lyell

Geologist • British

Sir Charles Lyell was a seminal British geologist who was a foremost proponent of uniformitarianism. His groundbreaking work, "Principles of Geology," argued that the Earth was shaped by the same slow-moving geological...