Archibald Geikie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.
-- Archibald Geikie

#Notebook #Holiday #Autumn
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
-- Archibald Geikie

#Summer #Country #Spring
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 #Thinking #Boulders
If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.
-- Archibald Geikie

#Men #Amplification #May

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
To lose a passport was the least of oneâ€™s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

Archibald Geikie famous quotes

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