Geologists Quotes
32 Geologists quotes by 28 unique authors
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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
— Neil Armstrong
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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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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] 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…
— Unknown Author
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.
— George Carlin
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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
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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
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[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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