Geological Quotes

78 Geological quotes by 58 unique authors

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
All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. — Ivan Chtcheglov
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
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
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
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. — Andy Goldsworthy
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
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
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
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
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
Living matter is the most powerful geological force. — Vladimir Vernadsky
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. — Richard Hammond
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
Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition, — Lubov Azria
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
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
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
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
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. — Jim Fowler
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay
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

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