Geology Quotes - Page 3

• Las naciones llamadas cristianas son las más ilustradas y progresistas... pero a pesar de su religión, no gracias a ella. La Iglesia se ha opuesto a todas las innovaciones y descubrimientos desde la época de Galileo hasta nuestros días, cuando el uso de anestesia en el parto se consideraba un pecado porque evitaba la maldición bíblica pronunciada contra Eva. Y a cada paso que se ha dado en astronomía y geología se ha opuesto el fanatismo y la superstición. Los griegos nos superaron en cultura artística y en arquitectura quinientos años antes de que naciera la religión cristiana.

  Mark Twain

  Cristiano, Tomado, Bíblico

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• La geología difiere tanto de la cosmogonía como las especulaciones sobre la creación del hombre difieren de la historia.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Men, Creation Of Man

  Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.4

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• Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.

  William Buckland

  Knowledge, Science, Keys

  William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.7

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• Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

  Roderick Murchison

  Science, Twins, Geography

  "The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: JRGS", Volume 27, p. cxxxvii, 1857.

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• Estoy aquí trazando la Historia de la Tierra misma, desde sus propios Monumentos.

  Jean-Andre Deluc

  Science, Earth, Monument

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• America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Skeletons, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• Pero en la misma proporción en que este proceso de exterminio ha actuado en una escala enorme, el número de variedades intermedias, que han existido anteriormente, debe ser realmente enorme. ¿Por qué entonces no está cada formación geológica y cada estrato lleno de tales eslabones intermedios? La geología no revela, ciertamente, ninguna cadena orgánica tan finamente graduada; y ésta es, tal vez, la objeción más obvia y seria que puede oponerse a la teoría. La explicación reside, según creo, en la extrema imperfección del registro geológico.

  Charles Darwin

  Mentir, Creer, Teoría De La Evolución

  Charles Darwin (2012). "Sobre el origen de las especies y El viaje del Beagle", p.162, Graphic Arts Books.

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• En la primera página de la Biblia hay un ejemplo de cómo el literalismo no es sino una invitación a trascender la imagen a la que apunta el literalismo. Esa primera página no es geología, biología o paleontología; es alta religión. Porque allí se nos dice quiénes somos en términos de nuestro texto constitutivo. Y si pudiéramos entender eso, nos preocuparía si los antílopes o los melones venían en un orden determinado.

  Joseph Sittler

  Orden, Preocupación, Primeros

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• Por lo tanto, a pesar de que no hemos sido testigos de un gran continente, sin embargo, como podemos predecir la ocurrencia futura de tales catástrofes, estamos autorizados a considerarlas como parte del orden actual de la Naturaleza.

  Charles Lyell

  Nature, Science, Order

  Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology0: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation : In 4 Volumes”, p.134

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• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Two, Earth

  Proceedings of the Geological Survey of London. "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, p. 873, 2012.

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• We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

  James Hutton

  Nature, Science, Power

  James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.86

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• This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.

  Archibald Geikie

  Book, Science, Thinking

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.4

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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

  William Buckland

  Science, Masonry, Courses

  William Buckland (1836). “Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.37

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• In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave ..." It seems to me that the same is true of the much older [geological stratigraphical] history of Europe.

  D. V. Ager

  Sabiduría, Ciencia, Hombres

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• La Biblia es el único libro que puede hacernos sabios para la salvación. La Biblia no es un libro para ser estudiado como estudiamos geología y astronomía, meramente para averiguar sobre la formación de la tierra y la estructura del universo; sino que es un libro que revela la verdad, diseñado para llevarnos a una unión viva con Dios.

  George Frederick Pentecostés

  Christian, Wise, Book

  George Frederick Pentecost (1885). “"In the Volume of the Book ": Or, the Profit and Pleasure of Bible Study ... with an Introduction by Revs. Joseph Cook and J.H. Vincent”

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• So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Book, Science, Men

  Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.259

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• No podemos ver cómo la evidencia proporcionada por el incuestionable desarrollo progresivo de la existencia organizada, coronada como lo ha sido por la reciente creación de la mayor maravilla de la tierra, el HOMBRE, puede ser dejada de lado, o su resultado aparentemente necesario retenido por un momento. Cuando el Sr. Lyell encuentre, como un amigo ingenioso informó recientemente que se había encontrado, una cuchara de plata en grauvaca, o una locomotora en esquisto de mica, entonces, pero no antes, nos inscribiremos como discípulos de la Teoría Cíclica de las Formaciones Geológicas.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Ingenioso, Ciencia, Hombres

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• Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

  D. V. Ager

  Science, Past, Records

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• When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

  James Hutton

  Science, Views, Connections

  James Hutton (1795). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

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• With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.

  William Buckland

  Taken, Writing, Science

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• 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.

  Charles Lapworth

  Time, Science, Men

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• During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

  Charles Darwin

  Determination, Book, Science

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• ¿Quiénes son los sirvientes del granjero? ... La Geología y la Química, la cantera del aire, el agua del arroyo, el relámpago de la nube, la fundición del gusano, el arado de la escarcha.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Clouds, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.

  Paul Davies

  Medicine, Numbers, Exotic

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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