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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Study nature not books
Study nature, not books.
Uniformity and Evolution are one.
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults
What more can we require? Nothing but time.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Where oil is first found is in the minds of men
It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.
The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.
There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.
It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.
I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.
It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.
We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
