For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,… — Hans Cloos Copy Share Image
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Meteorology . . . is quite as “scientific” as geology and far more so than archaeology—it actually makes more use of scientific… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.” — Edward Greenly Copy Share Image
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling,… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of… — William Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my… — Hans Cloos Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak 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
The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by… — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew… — Andrew J. Feustel Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“Each volcano is an independent machine—nay, each vent and monticule is for the time being engaged in its own peculiar business, cooking… — Clarence Edward Dutton Copy Share Image
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it… — Vladimir Belousov Copy Share Image
“Our disagreement rises with the timing of the formation of these rock layers! Where the evolutionists say the fossiliferous rock layers “were… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are… — Granville Penn Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison 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 evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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![“[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct…” quote by M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/m-king-hubbert-38933_ads_the-first-postulate-of-the-principle-of_1182064.jpg)
