Australian Geologist Quotes

Douglas Mawson

Samuel Warren Carey

The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

We had found an accursed country. On the fringe of an unspanned continent along whose gelid coast our comrades had made their home—we knew not where—we dwelt where the chill breath of a vast, Polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

Samuel Warren Carey

For geologists...the word 'plate' is in somewhat the same position as 'skyscraper' It is a dead (or almost dead) metaphor. Geologists know (or they think they know) what plates are, almost as well as the commuter knows what a skyscraper is.

David Roger Oldroyd

It was mistakenly reported that the Times correspondent Morrison had been killed during the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing, to which Morrison responded:

Have just read obituary in the Times. Kindly adjust pay to suit.

George Ernest Morrison