Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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

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

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

There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen