Astronomy Quote by John Herschel

Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with…

— 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

[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

[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

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

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

One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse…

— Alan Stern

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

— Ken Wilber

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

— 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

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