Biology Quote by John Burroughs

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

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

— Cole Sprouse

A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the…

— Marston Bates

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

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has…

— Roger Tory Peterson

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote…

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to…

— Hugh Miller

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

[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

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

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the…

— Richard Leakey