Mineralogy Quote by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be…

— Michael Perrin

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

— Brenda Laurel

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus…

— Milan Kundera

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

— Lily Tomlin

As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

“There are no mineral monsters.”

— Canguilhem

“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin,…

— Georgius Agricola

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.

— Janet Yellen

“Sometimes, yes, we do speak to a mountain and it will lift up and be cast into the sea. But I've also learned over…

— Sarah Bessey

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

— Confucius

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

— Andy Goldsworthy