[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
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits… — Lynn Margulis 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
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology. — Louis Leakey 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
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
“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
“Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest… — Keith Meldahl 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
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“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… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to… — Amadeus William Grabau 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
To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production… — Albertus Magnus 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
We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
“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 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
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image