Stephen Jay Gould

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

American Scientist

Frank Drake

If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution.

Janet Yellen

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

American Public Servant

Used mainly in educational or scientific discussions about minerals and their properties.

Academic Focus

Encompasses study of mineral structures, formation, and classification, not only rocks.

Not Just Rocks

Mineralogy intersects with other sciences like chemistry and geography.

Interdisciplinary

Mineralogy can vary greatly between locations due to geological processes.

Geographical Variation

Refers to the distinct set of minerals in a certain location, not general study.

Specificity

Acknowledges the importance of conserving the minerals that constitute a region’s mineralogy.

Nonrenewable Resource

 works here again sampling the rock record sampling the mineralogy trying to understand what it is that lives there how it's sustained but also how it is recorded so how we were able to recognize environments like this on Mars so now we've learned something from Earth we've learned that everywhere on earth where there is water there's life

Bethany Ehlmann:...

 So Dad started racking up all of these patents and gaining a reputation as a blind genius, rocket scientist, inventor. But to us he was just Dad, and our home life was pretty normal. As a kid, I watched a lot of television and had lots of nerdy hobbies like mineralogy and microbiology