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Reinout Willem van Bemmelen has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
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We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness…
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Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…
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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is…
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As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality…
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[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends…
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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…
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There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer…
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In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic…
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
— Charles Babbage
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Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory…
— Richard Preston
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors…
— Wendell Berry
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If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the…
— John McPhee
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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight…
— Milan Kundera
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Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that…
— Ruth Ozeki
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you…
— Robert Morgan
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