Best Geological Sayings
78 Geological quotes by 58 unique authors
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I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free,…
— John Muir
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Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
— George Will
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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is…
— Richard Dawkins
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
— Will Durant
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions…
— Nhat Hanh
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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
— David Suzuki
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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is…
— David Suzuki
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They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it…
— Arundhati Roy
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Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a…
— Michael Crichton
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But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly…
— Charles Darwin
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Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the…
— Richard Dawkins
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After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.
— Darynda Jones
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What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of…
— Thomas Berry
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Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world…
— Charles Lyell
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy…
— David Suzuki
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The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the…
— Neil MacGregor
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Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in…
— Edward Forbes
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The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
— John Hanning Speke
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The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of…
— Robert T. Bakker
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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is…
— Simon Winchester
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All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times…
— Simon Winchester
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Geological time is not money.
— Mark Twain
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I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists…
— Unknown Author
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