| NOVA Annandale | Geology | Bentley | Geology quotes | |
"Change is the only constant." - Heraclitus |
"If one is sufficiently lavish with
time, everything possible happens." - Herodotus |
"With their four-dimensional minds, and in their
interdisciplinary ultraverbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost
anything." - John McPhee |
"I have a Bachelor of Science degree in geology
from the City College of New York, and my great contribution to the field
of geology is that I never entered it upon graduation." |
"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"...And yet it does move." - Galileo (referring to the Earth) |
"I am convinced that, at its best, science is
simple -- that the simplest arrangement of facts that sets forth the truth
best deserves the title of science. So the geology I plead for is that
which states facts in plain words -- in language understood by the many
rather than by the few." - George Otis Smith |
"Human beings are now carrying out a large scale
geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past
nor be reproduced in the future. Within a few centuries, we are returning
to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in
sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years." - Roger Revelle and Hans Suess, 1957 |
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." |
"If the quantity of carbonic acid (CO2)
increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature
will increase nearly in arithmetic progression." |
"To uphold a tenet that contradicts reason is
to undermine one's credibility. To contradict empirical evidence is a
still greater fallacy." - The Dalai Lama |
"Rivers shift, oceans fall, and mountains drift." |
"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." |
"It strikes me that all our knowledge about the
structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of
the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching." |
"Make them like me adorers of the good science
of rock-breaking." |
"We are like a judge confronted by a defendant
who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial
evidence." |
"Whereas non-scientific (and potentially dangerous)
thinking starts with a premise and then looks for things that support
it, scientific thinking constantly tries to disprove itself. That alone
makes all the difference in the world." -Derren Brown |
"There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world,
but no ruined stones." |
"Are these the end times? Yes. And they have been this way since the beginning. Welcome to planet Earth, a wonderful but not entirely stable place to live." -Craig Childs |
"“Beautiful is what directly is revealed
to the senses without dissection. More beautiful is what the dissection
draws forth from the hidden interior parts. But far most beautiful—although
escaping the senses—is what can be approached through reasoning
about what the senses have already perceived" |