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
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen 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
“Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.” — Edward Greenly 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 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
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
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books… — Archibald Geikie 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
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
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
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
“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
“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from… — Peter Matthiessen 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
“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
[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
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
“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
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our… — William Buckland 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
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce 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
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“There is no thrill like the thrill of discovery; no life like the life of a mining camp in the days of… — C.B. Glasscock Copy Share Image
We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just ask any subjugated thing- a wife, population, race, deferred dream and resource misappropriated, or continental plate; and it will tell you… — Marie Anzalone Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller 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 those of sane men-e.g. that they have their foundations in truth-and are not like the dreams of the sick, formed by strange combinations of phantasms, contrary to nature…” quote by Scipione Breislak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0d/scipione-breislak-276650_combination_in-geology-we-cannot-dispense-with-conje_3121770.png)
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