Four Quote by John McPhee

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

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but…

— Nils-Axel Morner

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

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Cole Sprouse

Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring…

— Samael Aun Weor

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.…

— Nikola Tesla