The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. — William Buckland Copy Share Image
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson 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
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have… — James Croll Copy Share Image
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the… — Anonymous 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
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth 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
But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and… — Chloe Smith Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“The Flood was not merely a mass of water; but a collection of mud/sediment (earth) that was utilized to destroy the pre-Flood… — Ken Ham 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
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson 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
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
I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“About the breakup to what we have today, the text of Scripture gives us some clues. By the 150th day of the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline.… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits… — Kathy B. Steele Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
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