Biology Quote by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

— Charles Lyell

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 is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into…

— Charles Lyell

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

— Rosa Luxemburg

The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art,…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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 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

You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try…

— Bjarke Ingels

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

— John Herschel

Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with…

— Charles Lapworth

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in…

— John Ruskin