"Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights." — Bill Bryson

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• Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
• The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon… — Buzz Aldrin
• About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well… — Charles Darwin
• When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations… — Louis Agassiz
• The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of… — Louis Agassiz
• No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other… — Hugh Miller
• Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ...… — Walt Whitman
• The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions… — William Johnson Sollas
• As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
• Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining… — Henry De la Beche
• The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments… — William Buckland
• [In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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