Decipher Quote by William Buckland

The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a…

— Louis Agassiz

“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

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

The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human…

— Eduard Suess

“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found…

— John Playfair

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

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

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote…

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the…

— William Buckland