Archibald Geikie Quotes

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If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Archibald Geikie
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.' Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.

Archibald Geikie
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

Archibald Geikie
In the history of mankind no sharp line can be drawn between the events that are happening now or have happened within the last few generations, and those that took place long ago, and which are sometimes, though inaccurately, spoken of as historical. Every people is enacting its history today just as fully as it did many centuries ago.

Archibald Geikie
It was a long time before men came to understand that any true theory of the earth must rest upon evidence furnished by the globe itself, and that no such theory could properly be framed until a large body of evidence had been gathered together.

Archibald Geikie
In scientific as in other mundane questions there may often be two sides, and the truth may ultimately be found not to lie wholly with either.

Archibald Geikie
In science, as in all other departments of inquiry, no thorough grasp of a subject can be gained unless the history of its development is clearly appreciated.

Archibald Geikie
While eagerly pressing forward in the search after the secrets of Nature, we are apt to keep the eye too constantly fixed on the way that has to be traveled, and to lose sight and remembrance of the paths already trodden.

Archibald Geikie
By enabling them [researchers] to comprehend how, foot by foot, the realms of science have been painfully conquered, it [history] furnishes suggestive lessons as to tracks that should be avoided, and fields that may hopefully be entered.

Archibald Geikie
It is the fate of continents, no less than of the human communities that inhabit them, to have their first origin shrouded in obscurity.

Archibald Geikie
We speak of the firm earth, of the everlasting hills, of the imperishable mountains, as if, where all else is fleeting and mutable, these forms at least remain unchanged.

Archibald Geikie
With a certain class of minds, fancy comes in to supply the place of facts that fail.

Archibald Geikie