Earth Formation Quotes

“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.”
― Georges Cuvier, Discours sur les Révolutions du Globe, Etudes sur L'Ibis et Memoire sur La Venus Hottentote

“For the first half-billion years, Earth was a molten inferno some 8,000 degrees Celsius—hotter than today's sun. Scientists call this violent era the Hadean, from the Greek word Hades, or hell. Time and again, the young Earth built up a crust, only to see it incinerated by storms of flaming meteors.”
― Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

“The water vapor accumulated in the upper atmosphere for so long that when the surface finally cooled enough for the rains to touch down, they poured in catastrophic torrents for thousands of years.”
― Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History