Common Quote by Richard Whately

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

— Robert Black

You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is…

— Henry David Thoreau

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also…

— Thomas George Bonney

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

— John McPhee

There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil…

— Christopher Alexander

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of…

— Charles Darwin

“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at…

— John Ruskin

Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science…

— Jacque Fresco

Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.

— George Carlin

[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

About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying…

— Charles Darwin

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin…

— Charles Lyell

“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists…

— Kevin Hearne

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in…

— William O. Douglas