Geologists Quotes

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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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