Colour Quote by Charles Darwin

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention…

— William Herschel

[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…

— Thomas George Bonney

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists…

— John Lubbock

“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists…

— Kevin Hearne

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but…

— Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the…

— Richard Whately

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of…

— Bertrand Russell

It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious…

— Katharine Kolcaba

Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

— John Burroughs

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

— Herbert Harold Read

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided…

— Peter Medawar

“The belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it is often…

— Karl R. Popper