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- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars...… — Buzz Aldrin
- About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin
- When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz
- The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz
- No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller
- Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman
- The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more,… — William Johnson Sollas
- As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
- Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Henry De la Beche
- The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland
- [In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen