Concerned Quote by Charles Lapworth

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led…

— Granville Penn

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

If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the…

— William Johnson Sollas

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear…

— Anonymous

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my…

— Charles Lyell

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á…

— Charles Lyell

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen