So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.” — William Hamilton 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 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 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
“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
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie… — John Burroughs 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
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would… — Dick Thompson 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
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image