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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the…

— James Hutton

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich…

— Chris Murray

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback…

— Buzz Aldrin

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have…

— Brit Marling

The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed…

— Torbern Bergman

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all…

— Buzz Aldrin

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

— John Burroughs

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

— Robert Duncan

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