Exhibits Quote by Edward Forbes

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

“There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new intelligence, even…

— Richard Fortey

“Geography is history in place, history is geography in time”

— Élisée Reclus

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The art of the great historic civilizations never impress us as much as an Eskimo harpoon or a mask from the South Pacific. The…

— Octavio Paz

When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to…

— Ben Gibbard

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

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed…

— Franz Boas

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what…

— Chris Hadfield

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of…

— D. V. Ager