Geology Quotes

“Lunar Geology Rocks.”

— Homer Hickam

“History is subject to geology.”

— Ariel Durant

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

— Lou Henry Hoover

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

— Anonymous

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night”

— Richard G. Lillard

“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

— Ellsworth Huntington

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

— Roderick Murchison

“That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is…

— Terry Pratchett

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a…

— Marianne Wiggins

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

— Alfred Harker

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

— Ben Bernanke

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

— George Will

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the…

— Anonymous

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,…

— William Buckland

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of…

— Anonymous

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such…

— Michael Shermer

Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our…

— William Buckland

Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more…

— Doug Casey

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity…

— Josiah Royce

“There is no thrill like the thrill of discovery; no life like the life of a mining camp in the days of…

— C.B. Glasscock

A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that…

— Jim Nollman

“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same…

— James Dwight Dana

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…

— Adam Sedgwick

For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,…

— Hans Cloos

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's…

— Wright Thompson

“is possible to have more than one continent with a situation where waters are still in one place. Even so, some have…

— Ken Ham

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

— Bonnie Bassler

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

— William Stone

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

— J. G. Holland

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment…

— Daniel Yergin

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next…

— John Herschel

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic…

— D. V. Ager