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Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
Geology is intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as history is to the moral. An
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.
Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,
the every-day life of each particular time and country.
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts,
I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.
The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps.
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.
We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.
I'm an explorer.
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate.
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
The son of two archeologists
On each of two porches lie big chunks of serpentine - smooth as talc, mottled black and green. When you see rocks like that on a porch, a geologist is inside.
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
lab workers as subjects.
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts - who can say when that will come in handy?
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
an expert. Which, as we all know, is nothing more than a liar a hundred miles from home.
My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.
Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
Some are professors and others are possessors.
Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past ... 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.
I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, or something safe and sensible. But no, I had to be an historian.
The ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography.
I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Geochemistry gives rise seamlessly to biochemistry.
When people initially think of the term 'space archaeologist,' they think, 'Oh, it's someone who uses satellites to look for alien settlements on Mars or in outer space,' but the opposite is true - we're actually looking for evidence of past human life on planet earth.
You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the way it is in college.
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine.
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.
Some people write string quartets, some grow lettuce and tomatoes. There have to be a few who build railroad stations,
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.
My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
Exploration is the sport of the scientist
Establishment. In 1966, the Dutch geologist M. G. Rutten could write, in a charmingly antiquated style that has passed forever from the scientific journals:
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.
Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.
Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.