William Buckland quotes

William Buckland was an English clergyman, geologist, and paleontologist, renowned for his pioneering work in natural history. His research included the first scientific description of a dinosaur and important studies of paleontology and geology. He made significant contributions to the understanding of fossils and prehistoric life. Here are 5 of his quotes:

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

William Buckland

Life to each individual is a scene of continued feasting in a region of plenty; and when unexpected death arrests its course, it repays with small interest the large debt which it has contracted to the common fund of animal nutrition, from whence the materials of its body have been derived. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth and the bosom of the deep with endless successions of life and happiness.

William Buckland

The taste of mole was the most repulsive I knew until I tasted a bluebottle.

William Buckland

I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king.

William Buckland