John Tuzo Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
-- John Tuzo Wilson

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Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
-- John Tuzo Wilson

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I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.
-- John Tuzo Wilson

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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

John Tuzo Wilson famous quotes

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