Geology Quotes

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

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

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

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

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

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

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

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

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

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, and it also applies to how photosynthesis works in plants.

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million

The present is the key to the past.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away

We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.