Character Quote by Edward Forbes

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

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do…

— Roderick Murchison

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try…

— Bjarke Ingels

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

— Will Durant

[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

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in…

— Roderick Murchison

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

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

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living…

— Kenneth R. Miller