Geologist Quotes

59 Geologist quotes by 48 unique authors

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are… — Charles Lyell
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of… — Charles Lyell
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
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such… — William O. Douglas
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… — Charles Lyell
Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in… — Eike Batista
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life… — Wallace Pratt
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists,… — Terry Tempest Williams
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics. — Matthew William Goode
Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed… — Sam Kean
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if… — Herbert Spencer
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who… — Louis J. Mordell
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid. — George Carlin
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've… — Gene Cernan
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon… — Thomas George Bonney

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