William Buckland Quotes:
Ocupation: Geologist
Life: March 12, 1784 - August 14, 1856
Birthday: March 12
Death: August 14
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.
source: William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.32
topic: Revolution, Mosaics, Creation
