Archibald Geikie - The Founders of Geology (1897)

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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

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 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

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

Archibald Geikie