Accounts Quote by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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

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

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 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, 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

[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

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

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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

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

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