But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in… — William Herbert Hobbs Copy Share Image
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image
“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and… — Chloe Smith Copy Share Image
If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account,… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
“The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook… — Archibald Geikie 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
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“Just ask any subjugated thing- a wife, population, race, deferred dream and resource misappropriated, or continental plate; and it will tell you… — Marie Anzalone Copy Share Image
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
![“[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and ... their followers have of late been distinguished by the fanciful names of Vulcanists and Neptunists. To the…” quote by John Playfair](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/081/john-playfair-46821_agency_to-explain-the-phenomena-of-the-mineral_707668.jpg)
![“[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.” quote by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f59/reinout-willem-van-bemmelen-44_accounts_the-subjective-historical-element-in-geo_534299.jpg)
![“Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.” quote by Charles Lapworth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/169/charles-lapworth-52504_concerned_nothing-perhaps-has-so-retarded-the-rece_2061407.png)
![“During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/42c/charles-darwin-507_biographies_during-my-second-year-at-edinburgh-1826_1350666.jpg)
![“Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.” quote by Archibald Geikie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2c3/archibald-geikie-73186_air_geology-offers-always-some-material-for_444312.png)
