At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of… — William Hamilton Copy Share Image
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my… — Hans Cloos Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by… — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Another milestone with geological implications is day 150. At this stage of the Flood we are told that the ark came to… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline.… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew… — Andrew J. Feustel Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits… — Kathy B. Steele Copy Share Image
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history,… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
![“In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane men-e.g. that they have their foundations in truth-and are not like the dreams of the sick, formed by strange combinations of phantasms, contrary to nature…” quote by Scipione Breislak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b0d/scipione-breislak-276650_combination_in-geology-we-cannot-dispense-with-conje_3121770.png)
![“[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles, which... are neither more nor…” quote by Charles Lyell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/da9/charles-lyell-17452_acting_my-book-will-endeavour-to-establish-the_1476803.jpg)
![“The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and…” quote by Charles Lapworth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/937/charles-lapworth-52504_band_the-course-of-the-line-we-indicated-as-f_937360.png)
![“Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?” quote by William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/60d/william-buckland-38336_attributes_shall-it-any-longer-be-said-that-a-scien_1553909.png)
![“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth,"…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a7/anonymous-1_communication_in-geology-as-in-history-the-material-in_22470.jpg)
![“[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.” quote by Edward Forbes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7f/edward-forbes-31709_character_geology-may-be-looked-upon-as-the-histor_962358.jpg)
