Age Quote by James Dwight Dana

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

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

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

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

“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the…

— William Johnson Sollas

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

“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history. In the…

— Edward Abbey

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in…

— Roderick Murchison

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin