My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great… — J. G. Holland 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
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“All that comes above the surface [of the globe] lies within the province of Geography; all that comes below that surface lies… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
“Sophisticated human beings were on hand to see this volcano's convulsions, they were able to investigate the event, and they were able… — Simon Winchester 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
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson Copy Share Image
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence… — Jimmy Carter 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
“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 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
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
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 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
“Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its… — Keith Meldahl 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
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
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
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