Geography Quote by Roderick Murchison

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

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

[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

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

...but you call it science. I come from a land where they are one and the same. -Thor

— Thor

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

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 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

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

[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

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

— Karl Marx

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