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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
Louis Agassiz
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Going to the mountains is going home.
John Muir
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In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.
Edward Forbes
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Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.
Vladimir Vernadsky
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Herbert Hoover
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Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
John Muir
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin
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The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.
William Whewell
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise and this into astonishment and this into stupefied amazement.
Charles Darwin
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.
Louis Agassiz
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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
John Muir
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The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
Herbert Hoover
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
Gottfried Leibniz
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The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.
Luna Leopold
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There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Herbert Hoover
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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
John Hickenlooper
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
Gottfried Leibniz
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The grand old Book of God still stands and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.
James Dwight Dana
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There are a number of causes of climatic change, and until all causes other than carbon dioxide increase are ruled out, we cannot attribute the change to carbon dioxide alone.
Reid Bryson
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
John Muir
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
John Muir
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Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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