Geology famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.
-- Charles Lyell

#Order #May #Geology
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
-- Charles Lyell

#Men #Creation #Geology
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
-- David Brin

#Culture #Currents #Geology
We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

#Earth #Geology
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.
-- James Croll

#Geology
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
-- Jean-Andre Deluc

#Earth #Geology #Monument
The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.
-- John William Dawson

#Earth #Worship #Geology
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
-- Lou Henry Hoover

#College #Geology #Hoover
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
-- William Buckland

#Masonry #Geology

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
NEU!'s music will always ("fÃ¼r immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I have changed since and I judge my contributions to NEU!'s music of the 70's in a historical context. They were both a description of my feelings back then as well as an expression of my musical abilities and limitations. It would be a mistake to ignore the time factor and it would be an artistic shortcoming to pick up on the old concept without doing any changes. There is no way this is going to happen anyway.
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
There is a certain swagger with vampires.
I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.