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“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history. In the…

— Edward Abbey

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the…

— Charles Lapworth

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

“The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.”

— Alexander Humboldt

The great workman of nature is time.

— Anonymous

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led…

— Granville Penn

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit…

— James Hutton

Time is the great workman of Nature.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon