...accepts them.' Then, as perhaps now, geologists were often considered to be numerically illiterate: 'I dislike very much to consider any quantitative...vague for the matter to be in any sense satisfactory', complained the physicist John Perry. Although Darwin later said that his calculation was only an attempt...

...he disliked to consider any quantitative problem in geology. "In nearly every case," he pointed out, "the conditions given are much too vague for the matter...satisfactory, and a geologist does not seem to mind a few million years in matters relating to time." But if some of the geologists and paleontologists are justified...

...einzustufen. Lewis (2000: 26) zitiert den Physiker John Perry: „/ dislike very much tn considerany quantitative problem set by a geologist. In nearly every case the conditions given are much too vaguefor the matter to he in any sense satisfactory. " Das war kein Einzelfall. In Töpffers „Nouvelles...

...enormous interest, if there had been any error it certainly would have been discovered before now. I dislike very much to consider any quantitative problem...few millions of years in matters relating to time. Therefore I never till about three weeks ago seriously considered the problem of the cooling of the...