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Geologist Inspirational Quotes (1145)

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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
James Hutton
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It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.
Alfred Wegener
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Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
John Muir
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The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.
Humphry Davy
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. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.
Louis Agassiz
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We all flow from one fountain.
John Muir
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For many artists the universe is expanding for some it is contracting.
Robert Smithson
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In our lives we have known hell and heaven the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.
Herbert Hoover
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The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
William Buckland
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.
Nicolas Steno
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Gratitude is twin sister to humility Pride is foe to both.
James E. Talmage
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
Charles Darwin
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We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.
John Hickenlooper
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The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
Herbert Hoover
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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
Charles Francis Richter
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There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances.
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'
Charles Lyell
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If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.
Wallace Pratt
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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
Robert Ballard
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
John Muir
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One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.
Roy Herbert Reinhart
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