“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin 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
“How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity… — Emile Argand 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
“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to… — Amadeus William Grabau 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
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
“is possible to have more than one continent with a situation where waters are still in one place. Even so, some have… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's… — Wright Thompson 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
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
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
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick 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
A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson 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
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
“Another milestone with geological implications is day 150. At this stage of the Flood we are told that the ark came to… — Ken Ham 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
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana 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
![“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to…” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76d/adam-sedgwick-38188_breeding_vestiges-begins-from-principles-which-ar_743932.png)
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