Chemistry Quote by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the…

— William Morris Davis

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

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

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the…

— Charles Lapworth

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be…

— James Croll

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

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

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

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear…

— Anonymous

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

— Adam Sedgwick

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