Quotes from James Dwight Dana

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.