Hans Cloos Professions : Geologist Born : November 8, 1885 Died : September 26, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Hans Cloos It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily-the idea that geology is the music of the earth. Hans Cloos science years ideas For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present. Hans Cloos sleep men science The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty. Hans Cloos modesty earth science The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end. Hans Cloos effort ends path Similar Authors Archibald Geikie geologist Alfred Harker geologist Bernhard von Cotta geologist Douglas Mawson geologist Ian Plimer geologist Hugh Miller geologist All Authors
