Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I am a geologist.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

I would have been a geologist.

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.

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

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.

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the prophecies of the successive ages their fulfilment-might better comprehend his own nobility and the true purpose of his existence.

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.