Geologist Quotes

59 Geologist quotes by 48 unique authors

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
I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks. — Herbert Harold Read
Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained,… — Charles Lapworth
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. — Ellsworth Huntington
I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point… — Harold Hamm
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… — Stephen Jay Gould
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to… — Jules Verne
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights. — Bill Bryson
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of… — George Leigh Mallory
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,… — Charles Lapworth

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