Geology Quotes

“Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night”

— Richard G. Lillard

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History is subject to geology.”

— Ariel Durant

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

— Lou Henry Hoover

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

— Anonymous

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

— Ben Bernanke

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

— Henry David Thoreau

“If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.”

— William Hamilton

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

— Ellsworth Huntington

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of…

— Jon Krakauer

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is…

— Terry Pratchett

Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our…

— William Buckland

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

— George Will

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as…

— Anonymous

The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie…

— John Burroughs

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic…

— D. V. Ager

Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more…

— Doug Casey

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

— Michael Shermer

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…

— Adam Sedgwick

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history…

— Richard Lewontin

“There is no thrill like the thrill of discovery; no life like the life of a mining camp in the days of…

— C.B. Glasscock

Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present…

— Thomas George Bonney

I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's…

— Wright Thompson

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

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he…

— Richard P. Feynman

“How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity…

— Emile Argand

“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

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

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering…

— Colin Powell

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…

— Charles Lyell

“Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its…

— Keith Meldahl

“Another milestone with geological implications is day 150. At this stage of the Flood we are told that the ark came to…

— Ken Ham

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

— Bonnie Bassler

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

— William Buckland

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

— John Tuzo Wilson

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

— Louis Leakey