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.

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

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

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.

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

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

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.