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Geology Quotes

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Earth, Geology, Archaeologists
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.21, Arktos

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

Lou Henry Hoover
College, Geology, Hoover

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Jean-Andre Deluc
Science, Earth, 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
David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.520, Spectra

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

William Buckland
Science, Masonry, Geology
William Buckland (1836). “Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.37

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Science, Earth, Geology
Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon (1817). “A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc”, p.6

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
Science, Geology, Accounts
James Croll (1875). “Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate”, p.4

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