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The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to…

— William James

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

— Kenneth Lacovara

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

— Tracy Kidder

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that…

— Anonymous

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis.…

— Charles Francis Richter

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if…

— Herbert Spencer

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

— John Herschel

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved…

— Charles Francis Richter