Henry De la Beche Professions : Geologist Born : February 10, 1796 Died : April 13, 1855 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Henry De la Beche Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account. Henry De la Beche distance information science It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible that the facts first known may be the exceptions to a rule and not the rule itself, and generalisations from these first-known facts, though useful at the time, may be highly mischievous, and impede the progress of the science if retained when it has made some advance. Henry De la Beche progress views science Similar Authors Archibald Geikie geologist Alfred Harker geologist Bernhard von Cotta geologist Douglas Mawson geologist Ian Plimer geologist Hugh Miller geologist All Authors
