14 Quotes by Adam Sedgwick

If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

How very unlike are poodles and greyhounds! Yet they are of one species.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.