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The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,… — John Burroughs
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There… — 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 remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to… — Charles Lyell
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods… — Charles Darwin
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,… — James Dwight Dana
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
We can only penetrate the rind of the earth. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be… — William Buckland
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity… — James Hutton
Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique… — Unknown Author
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. — John Tuzo Wilson
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they… — Hans Cloos

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