Geology Quotes - Page 6

• Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.

  William Herbert Hobbs

  Science, Unique, Earth

  William Herbert Hobbs (1921). “Earth Evolution and Its Facial Expression”

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• Combinando en nuestro estudio toda la gama de depósitos, desde el grupo más reciente hasta el más antiguo, qué sucesión tan sorprendente presentan: tan variada y tan uniforme, tan vasta y tan conectada. Al remontarse así a los períodos más remotos de la historia física de nuestros continentes, un sistema de operaciones, como el medio por el cual muchas formaciones complejas se han producido sucesivamente, la mente se impresiona con la unicidad de las leyes de la naturaleza; y en este aspecto, al menos, la geología es apenas inferior en simplicidad a la astronomía.

  Roderick Murchison

  Naturaleza, Media, Ciencia

  Roderick Impey Murchison (1839). "The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford etc", p.574

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• 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.

  Abdul Kalam

  Yield, Numbers, Nuclear

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.

  William Crawford Williamson

  Memories, Father, Science

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• The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

  William Buckland

  Science, Inquiry, Fields

  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.5

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• The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.

  William Buckland

  Science, Mind, Age

  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.6

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• La geología es mejor para revestir huesos secos y revelar creaciones perdidas, que para trazar vetas de plomo y lechos de hierro; la astronomía es mejor para abrirnos las casas del cielo que para enseñar navegación; la cirugía es mejor para investigar la organiación que para arreglar miembros; sólo que está ordenado que, para nuestro estímulo, cada paso que demos en la ciencia añada algo a sus aplicaciones prácticas.

  John Ruskin

  Ánimo, Enseñanza, Ciencia

  John Ruskin (1907). "La religión de Ruskin: La vida y las obras de John Ruskin; un estudio biográfico y antológico"

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• Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.

  Charles Lapworth

  Mean, Science, Firsts

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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• La presión, sin duda, ha sido siempre un factor muy importante en el metamorfismo de las rocas; pero creo que en la actualidad existe cierto peligro en sobreestimar esto y representar una declaración parcial de la verdad como toda la verdad. La geología, como muchos seres humanos, sufrió convulsiones en su infancia; ahora, en sus últimos años, presiento un ataque de presión en el cerebro.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Ciencia, Pensamiento, Rocas

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• In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ciencia, Hombres, Orden

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• Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Ciencia, Hombres, Vista

  Adam Sedgwick (1850). “A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge”, p.45

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• Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

  Charles Kingsley

  Otoño, Pasión, Sueño

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “New miscellanies”, p.315

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• Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

  Humphry Davy

  Filosofía, Ciencia, Mente

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

  Jon Krakauer

  Sweet, Light, Desert

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to refer to his happy illustration — does not now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Illustration, Feet

  "The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed".

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• It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Views, Judging, Giving

  Entry for July 20, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• 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.

  Salvador Dalí

  Land, Skins, Liberty

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.393, Courier Corporation

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• The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape.

  John Burroughs

  Lying, Science, Rocks

  John Burroughs (1924). “Under the apple trees”

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• El mar entraba en erupción. A menudo, el mar y la tierra cambiaron de lugar. La inmovilidad de los contornos de los continentes y los mares, dogma de la geología, carece de fundamento. E inmediatamente está el problema del clima. Hubo climas antiguos muy diferentes de los actuales. Si esos corales crecieron donde se encontraron, ciertamente la Tierra no viajaba con los mismos elementos de rotación y revolución, lo que significa que no estaba en la misma órbita, ni con el eje dirigido en la misma posición que hoy. Si no lo creen, intenten conservar corales en el Polo Norte.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Creer, Significar, Ejes

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• I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Science, Years

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• Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Home, Average, Taught Us

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.147, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

  William Buckland

  Fate, Science, Religion

  William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• El uso existente y prolongado de la palabra "evolución" en los libros de texto de nuestro Estado no ha afectado negativamente a la creencia de los georgianos en la omnipotencia de Dios como creador del universo. No puede haber incompatibilidad entre la fe cristiana y los hechos probados relativos a la geología, la biología y la astronomía. No hay necesidad de enseñar que las estrellas pueden caer del cielo y aterrizar en una Tierra plana para defender nuestra fe religiosa.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". The CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Si hay un atributo de la Deidad que me asombra más que otro, es el atributo de la paciencia. La Gran Alma que se sienta en el trono del universo no tiene, nunca ha tenido y nunca tendrá prisa. En el reino de la naturaleza, todo ha sido forjado en la augusta conciencia de un ocio infinito; y bendigo a Dios por esa geología que me da una clave de la paciencia con que se efectuó el proceso creativo.

  J. G. Holland

  Keys, August, Giving

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