Paul Di Filippo

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.

American Writer

Jim Peebles

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.

Canadian Scientist

Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

American Poet

Octavia E. Butler

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Lisa Murkowski

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

American Politician

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

French Philosopher

Henry David Thoreau

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

American Author

Ben Bernanke

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

American Public Servant

William Stone

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

American Explorer

Lou Henry Hoover

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

American First Lady

Refers to a scholarly subject taught at universities, not a place to study rocks outdoors.

Academic Field

Encompasses more than just rocks; includes Earth's history, natural resources, and hazards.

Broader Context

Used by specialists when discussing their field of study or occupation.

Professional Usage

Refers to the geological characteristics of a particular location, like soil composition.

Specific Area

Important for planning buildings or infrastructure, indicating ground suitability.

Construction Context

Refers to both rocks and the environmental processes affecting them, like erosion.

Natural Conditions

 And then I'll tell you what you're looking at. Origins of life is a fascinating question. How did we get here? Well, there are two One is, what is the route from geology to biology -- how did we get here? And the other question is, what did we start with? What material, if any, did we have to work with on this route?

The mathematician who...

 broke ground for geology, and showed how unbiased, empirical observation can cut across intellectual borders to deepen our perspective. His finest accomplishment, though, may be his maxim, casting the search for truth beyond our senses and our current understanding as the pursuit of the beauty

The most groundbreaking...

 When we saw these photographs of what it actually looked like, really a world in its own right, it was mind blowing. There was active geology on Pluto right now, something so far from the sun should just be a cold, dead world, but it's not. It had this living, breathing heart. Three, two, one

Exploring Pluto's...

 Now, it is pretty obvious that going to extreme environments is helping us very much for the exploration of Mars and to prepare missions. So far, it has helped us to understand the geology of Mars. It has helped to understand the past climate of Mars and its evolution,

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 and the geology of the regions where they originated teach us that mythology and science are actually two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in explaining and understanding the world. The key difference is that where mythology uses gods, monsters and magic,

The scientific origins...

 remarkable discovery the attention of the world scientists turns to the mine a stunning cave a thousand feet down the cave is filled with crystals and now these experts in biology space exploration and geology will attempt to shed light on the discovery the

Deadly Crystal Cave PIPE...

 then seeping down deep into the earth and coming out to form the boiling river after getting heated up from the geothermal gradient, all due to this unique geologic setting. Now, we found that in and around the river -- this is working with colleagues

How I found a mythical...

 comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground. It’s there that an opal begins its life as something surprisingly water. Trickling down through gaps in soil and rock,

The most colorful...

 cycle of fire for the circle of life but we got a lot - we got small guts and big heads because we could cook food we went to the top of the food chain because we could cook landscapes and now we've become a geologic force because we've

How fire shapes...

 a unique blend of bits from its particular inhabitants. Household dust also contains substances that blow in from the wider world. Depending on the local geology, finely ground quartz, coal, or volcanic ash

Geology