“Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them.”

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...