In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have… — James Croll Copy Share Image
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship… — John William Dawson Copy Share Image
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.” — William Hamilton Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to… — Amadeus William Grabau Copy Share Image
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity… — Emile Argand Copy Share Image
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.” — Edward Greenly Copy Share Image
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson Copy Share Image
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling,… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
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