Quotes by Geology The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. Bal Gangadhar Tilak archaeologists geology earth History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate. David Brin geology currents culture We can only penetrate the rind of the earth. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon geology earth science 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. James Croll geology accounts science I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. Jean-Andre Deluc geology earth science I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. Lou Henry Hoover geology hoover college The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. William Buckland geology masonry science The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds. Sabine Baring-Gould feature back geology prime Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable. William Stone random things geology unpredictable