Geologist Quotes
59 quotes by 49 authors
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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
— Neil Armstrong
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The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on…
— Buzz Aldrin
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About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that…
— Charles Darwin
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through…
— Louis Agassiz
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The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery…
— Louis Agassiz
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,…
— Hugh Miller
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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the…
— Walt Whitman
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The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist…
— William Johnson Sollas
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As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which…
— Henry De la Beche
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The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and…
— William Buckland
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[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to…
— Granville Penn
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to…
— Roderick Murchison
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A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already…
— William J. Clinton
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with…
— Hugh Miller
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As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when…
— Harrison Schmitt
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Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred…
— Greg Benson
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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Who Wrote These Geologist Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 59 Geologist Quotes, led by these top contributors: