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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
Herbert Hoover
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I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.
Louis Agassiz
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I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.
Jim Gibbons
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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
John Muir
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
Robert Ballard
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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.
Humphry Davy
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As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.
Robert Smithson
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Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
John Muir
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
John Muir
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Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, On the other hand...
Herbert Hoover
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Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?
Joseph LeConte
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A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.
Charles Darwin
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
John Muir
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Progress has been much more general than retrogression
Charles Darwin
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The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
John Muir
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
Gottfried Leibniz
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It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
Charles Darwin
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
John Muir
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I prefer sayings over jokes.
Robert Ballard
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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
Lydia M. Child
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But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
John Muir
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
Charles Darwin
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