Geology Quote by James Croll

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á…

— Charles Lyell

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

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the…

— William Morris Davis

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

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

— Karl Marx

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in…

— John Ruskin

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

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

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