Affection Quote by John McPhee

“The home terms still apply. The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for…

— John McPhee

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

— Neil Armstrong

“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists…

— Kevin Hearne

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds…

— Christopher Alexander

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must…

— Charles Darwin

“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at…

— John Ruskin

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

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

Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the…

— Archibald Geikie

Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is…

— Charles Lapworth

“Every leader needs to etch some things in granite (never-change core) and write some things in sand (must -change methods).”

— Will Mancini

“This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.”

— Rob Sheffield