Geology Quotes - Page 4

• Una buena Física de la Tierra debe incluir todas las consideraciones primarias sobre la atmósfera terrestre, sobre las características y los cambios continuos de la corteza externa de la Tierra y, por último, sobre el origen y el desarrollo de los organismos vivos. Estas consideraciones dividen naturalmente la Física de la Tierra en tres partes esenciales, siendo la primera una teoría de la atmósfera, o Meteorología, la segunda, una teoría de la corteza externa de la Tierra, o Hidrogeología, y la tercera, una teoría de los organismos vivos, o Biología.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Atmosphere, Sound

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Learning, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Millones de personas de nuestra raza viven hoy en tierras situadas donde antes había mares profundos. En muchos distritos aún no ocupados por el hombre, abundan los animales terrestres y los bosques donde antes se hundía el ancla en el fondo cenagoso.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Animal, Men

  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.255

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• You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

  Mary Roach

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Science, Half, Deny

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• [The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct summation of the totality of all experimental and observational evidence.

  M. King Hubbert

  Science, Law, Principles

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• Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.

  Hugh Miller

  Nature, Science, Keys

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• Tomemos la decisión arbitraria (a mano alzada si es necesario) de definir la base de cada unidad estratigráfica en una sección seleccionada. Esto puede llamarse el "Principio de la Espiga de Oro". Entonces podremos olvidarnos de la nomenclatura estratigráfica y dedicarnos al verdadero trabajo de la estratigrafía, que es la correlación y la interpretación.

  D. V. Ager

  Real, Ciencia, Manos

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• Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to religion. The main epicenter of hysteria is not the scientific community but seems to be Hollywood.

  Doug Casey

  Hysteria, Community, Hollywood

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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• There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

  Richard Lewontin

  Events, Narrative, Kind

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Science, Eggs

  Louis Agassiz (2003). “Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history”

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• La civilización dio por sentado que el mundo entero se inundaba. Luego llegó la ciencia, la geología y la astrofísica moderna, y se comprendió bien que el tiempo se remontaba a miles de millones de años. Así que los religiosos ilustrados, por necesidad, tuvieron que deshacerse de los elementos mágicos de la Biblia. Un hecho poco conocido es que Thomas Jefferson hizo precisamente eso. Hay algo llamado la Biblia de Jefferson. No es muy publicitada porque entra en conflicto con las ideas de ciertas personas de lo que fueron los padres fundadores.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religioso, Padre, Años

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Light, Example

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.53, VM eBooks

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

  Goldwin Smith

  Youth, Strive, Genesis

  Goldwin Smith (1904). “Lines of Religious Inquiry: An Address Delivered to the Unitarian Club of Toronto”

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• 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.

  Daniel Dennett

  Paleontology, Branches, Molecular Biology

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• Existe un orden relativo entre las especies fosilizadas de plantas encontradas en el registro geológico que la Geología del Diluvio no puede explicar, a menos que puedas imaginar manzanos y naranjos con zapatillas Nike en sus raíces, corriendo más allá de las magnolias y los mamíferos primitivos, dejando a los ginkgos allí con los dinosaurios cuando las aguas del Diluvio comenzaron a subir.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Pasado, Orden

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• A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

  Jim Nollman

  Spiritual, Art, Flower

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• To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.

  Alberto Magno

  Ciencia, Animal, Rocas

  Saint Albertus Magnus (1967). “Book of Minerals”

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• Debo recordar que la historia no es una rama de la literatura. Los hechos históricos, como los hechos geológicos o astronómicos, pueden proporcionar material para el arte literario; por razones manifiestas se prestan a la representación artística mucho más fácilmente que los hechos de las ciencias naturales; pero revestir la historia de la sociedad humana con un ropaje literario no corresponde más a un historiador como historiador que a un astrónomo como astrónomo presentar en forma artística la historia de las estrellas.

  J. B. Bury

  Arte, Estrellas, Vestidos

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• 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.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Teacher, Academic Freedom, Holocaust

  "More Creationism Sneaks Into Public Schools". Personal blog, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. April 29, 2013.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Criticism, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.

  Wright Thompson

  Tired, Lsu, Next Week

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• 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.'

  Conan O'Brien

  War, America, Revolutionary

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• 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.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, History, Development

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220

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• 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.

  Colin Powell

  Science, Degrees, Fields

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