--- title: "2 R.W. van Bemmelen Quotes" description: "Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, also known as Rein van Bemmelen, was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcan..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ca/r-w-van-bemmelen-108473_abraham-gottlob-wern_half-a-century-ago-ostwald-1910-distingu_873005.jpg" --- # R.W. van Bemmelen **2** quotes in **15** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, also known as Rein van Bemmelen, was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology. He is known for his work on these subjects and the geology of Indonesia. ## Quotes by R.W. van Bemmelen > [“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-w-van-bemmelen/half-a-century-ago-ostwald-1910-distinguished-classicists-and/) R.W. van Bemmelen [Classicists](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/classicists/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ca/r-w-van-bemmelen-108473_abraham-gottlob-wern_half-a-century-ago-ostwald-1910-distingu_873005.jpg) > [“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-w-van-bemmelen/an-example-of-such-emergent-phenomena-is-the-origin-of-life-from-non/) R.W. van Bemmelen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/r-w-van-bemmelen-108473_billions-of-years_an-example-of-such-emergent-phenomena-is_2392250.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-w-van-bemmelen/#itemlist", "name": "R.W. van Bemmelen Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and to use consistently the deductions from working hypotheses; the latter being more fit for intuitive discoveries of functional relations between phenomena and therefore more able to open up new fields of study. Examples of both character types are Werner and Hutton. Werner was a real classicist. At the end of the eighteenth century he postulated the theory of “neptunism,” according to which all rocks including granites, were deposited in primeval seas. It was an artificial scheme, but, as a classification system, it worked quite satisfactorily at the time. Hutton, his contemporary and opponent, was more a romanticist. His concept of 'plutonism' supposed continually recurrent circuits of matter, which like gigantic paddle wheels raise material from various depths of the earth and carry it off again. 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