Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. L… - Louis Agassiz

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.