I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most…

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the…

— Richard Whately

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the…

— Anonymous

According to geologists, about 100 million years from now, Asia and the Americas will smash together to form one giant supercontinent. The good news:…

— Jay Leno

About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying…

— Charles Darwin

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin…

— Charles Lyell

“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists…

— Kevin Hearne

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this…

— Harold Hamm

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity…

— Charles Lyell

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of…

— Robert Knepper

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he…

— Sam Kean

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in…

— William O. Douglas

“The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested…

— Elizabeth Knox

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen