Biology Quote by George Will

“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the…

— Charles Lapworth

Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into…

— Charles Lyell

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

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute…

— Humphry Davy

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and…

— William Buckland

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led…

— Granville Penn

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

— Goldwin Smith

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

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

— Georgia Harkness