Classification Quote by Herbert Spencer

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most,…

— Herbert Spencer

“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know…

— Anonymous

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

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

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the…

— Richard Whately

[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

“GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up…

— Ambrose Bierce

The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions…

— William Buckland

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

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials…

— John Playfair

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal…

— David M. Raup