Archibald Geikie Professions : Geologist Born : December 28, 1835 Died : November 10, 1924 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Archibald Geikie If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won. Archibald Geikie amplification may men Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks. Archibald Geikie summer spring country When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company. Archibald Geikie autumn holiday notebook This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy. Archibald Geikie science book thinking Similar Authors Alfred Harker geologist Bernhard von Cotta geologist Douglas Mawson geologist Ian Plimer geologist Hugh Miller geologist Henry Fairfield Osborn geologist All Authors
