Quote by John McPhee

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not…

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

— Archibald Geikie

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

“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

Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I…

— Henry David Thoreau