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• Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
• We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness…
• Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…
• Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is…
• As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality…
• [In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends…
• [The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as…
• There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer…
• In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic…

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