Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists…

— John McPhee

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I…

— Louis Agassiz

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as…

— Edward Forbes

They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time…

— Arundhati Roy

How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a…

— Kurt Gödel

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Geological time is not money.

— Mark Twain