Geology Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Geology.
Top Quotes
“Earth records its own history.”
“Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.”
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“Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.”
“The very nature of the earth determines the place of geology among the sister sciences.”
“Beneath all the chaotic wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.”
“Geology is as intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as is history to the moral.”
“Union of geology with geography, without which the latter science is deprived of its firmest foundation”
“The principle of "uniformitarianism" and the method of "comparative ontology" are examples of geologic rules.”
“Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.”
“A geologist is a [Geological] fault-finder.”
“"We got a course in picknicking at the university," said Dr. Bourbon. "It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking."”
“Geology fully proves that organic creation passed through a series of stages before the highest vegetable and animal forms appeared.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.”
“All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species–of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.”
“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.””
“An ice age here, million years of mountain-building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time.”
“The history of the earth is inseparably linked to that of our planetary system, and the gap between astronomy and geology is being filled by cosmogony.”
“Experimental geology has this in common with all other branches of our science, petrology and palaeontology included, that in the long run it withers indoors.”