Geological Quotes
78 Geological quotes by 58 unique authors
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All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts.
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is…
— Jacque Fresco
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Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of…
— Niles Eldredge
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According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what…
— Daniel Yergin
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give…
— Richard Dawkins
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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features…
— Charles Sturt
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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration…
— James Dwight Dana
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Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches…
— Edward Forbes
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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind,…
— Anselm Kiefer
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No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series…
— William Buckland
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Living matter is the most powerful geological force.
— Vladimir Vernadsky
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Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
— Richard Hammond
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition,
— Lubov Azria
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Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in…
— D. V. Ager
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In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori…
— Charles Lyell
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Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by…
— James Lovelock
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone…
— Ronald Reagan
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My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
— Jim Fowler
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The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become
— Sheridan Hay
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How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
— Charles Darwin
Who Wrote These Geological Quotes
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