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Geology Quotes by John Tuzo Wilson
- Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
- Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one…
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- In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould
- Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth
- Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy… — John Ruskin
- It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Geology gives us a key to the patience of God. — J. G. Holland
- A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep… — John Herschel
- America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington
- Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick
- During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin
- Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell
- Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it… — Charles Lyell