Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at…

[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

“The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face…

— Edward Abbey

“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to form the…

— Amadeus William Grabau

“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a transverse section…

— John Playfair

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

— Michael Shermer

The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we…

— George Frederick Pentecost

“Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about…

— Keith Meldahl

“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline.…

— Ken Jennings

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

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

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

— Louis Leakey

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of…

— Honoré de Balzac

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30…

— Lynn Margulis

To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not…

— Albertus Magnus