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117 Geology quotes by 70 unique authors

The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in… — Rivka Galchen
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as… — Michael Shermer
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. — Daniel Yergin
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research… — Octavia Butler
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. — Lou Henry Hoover
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and stories. Girls on… — Chloe Smith
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles… — Arthur Conan Doyle
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a… — Mary Roach
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in… — D. V. Ager
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in… — Marianne Wiggins
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,… — Paul Davies
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal,… — H. P. Blavatsky
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
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section.… — D. V. Ager
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the… — D. V. Ager
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I… — John Muir
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand,… — Erasmus Darwin
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study… — George Frederick Pentecost
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. — George Will
The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as… — Jimmy Carter
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. — Henry David Thoreau
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station… — Abdul Kalam

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