The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship… — John William Dawson 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
[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
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. — Alfred Harker 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a… — Ken Jennings 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
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
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
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson 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
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
“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
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
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 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 successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. — William Buckland Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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