| 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 |