Able Quote by Christopher Alexander

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds…

— Christopher Alexander

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

— Neil Armstrong

Some people find oil. Others don't.

— J. Paul Getty

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned…

— Eike Batista

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of…

— Daniel Yergin

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

— Jim Ratcliffe

I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this…

— Harold Hamm

“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

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

— Edwin Drake

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless,…

— Peter Lesley

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not…

— John McPhee