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Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: Animals Any Country Development Event Gradual Hence Instant Instantaneous Lived Same Sudden Where Which Without

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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: About Alone Anyone Birth Dreamed Earth Ever Formation Fossils Gave Globe Seen Successive Them Theory Were Why Without Would

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Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: Any Cannot Covered Denied Did Form Highest Life Liquid Long Long Time Masses Mountains Originally Our State Sustain Thus Time Today Waters Were Which

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The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: Become Closer Even Foot Gets Great Higher Impressive Layers Little More Mountain Moves Notice Plenty Shell Solid Still Them Thicker Traces

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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: Animals Bones Connections Earth First Fossil History Importance Land Linked Object Particular Respect Show The History Of Theory Why Will

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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: After Ancient Changes Earth Layers Limited New Present Responsible Revolutions Sea State Strata Upsetting Which

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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: About Anything Before Cannot Evident Hardly Having Information Necessary Possess Preliminary Problem Questions Resolved Say Solve Some Them

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The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

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Topics: Distances Each Extent Great Great Extent Layers Limited More Older Over Small Subject Them Uniform Variation Within

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The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: Almost Almost All Area Contain Depths Dig Great Horizontal Land Layers Less Level Lowest Material More More Or Less Most Nothing Products Sea Show Us Varied Very Which

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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: Appearance Area Bodies Bones Carries Complete Dry Earlier Either Formed Immediate Itself Land Layer Least Strata Tells Them Those Times Us Which

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: August 23rd, 1769

Died: May 13th, 1832

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