Robert Jameson
(11 Jul 1774 - 19 Apr 1854)

Scottish naturalist and geologist who was one of the leading mining scientists of England. He authored many books.

Science Quotes by Robert Jameson (1)

According to the common law of nature, deficiency of power is supplied by duration of time.
— Robert Jameson
'Geological Illustrations', Appendix to G. Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth, trans. R. Jameson (1827), 430.
See also:  |  Law (134)  |  Nature (243)  |  Power (19)  |  Time (55)



Quotes by others about Robert Jameson (1)

During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.
Charles Darwin, His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and a Selected Series of his Published Letters (1892), 15. In Patrick Wyse Jackson, Four Centuries of Geological Travel (2007), 32.
See also:  |  Biography (152)  |  Geology (109)


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