Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
According to geologists, about 100 million years from now, Asia and the Americas will smash together to form one giant supercontinent. The… — Jay Leno 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
“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… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,… — Thomas George Bonney 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
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I'm here to present my findings at the symposium. I'm an esteemed member of the Society, with an impressive record of scholarship,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman 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
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — 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
There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying… — Christopher Alexander 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
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I… — Eike Batista Copy Share Image
Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent people have, as some may say, 'drunk the Al… — Earl F Titcomb Jr Copy Share Image
“We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a… — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.… — Harrison Schmitt 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
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“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… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more,… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Hamm Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the… — Wallace Pratt Copy Share Image
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