Canadian Geologist Quotes

John William Dawson

Norman L. Bowen

Reginald Aldworth Daly

John Tuzo Wilson

Robert Charles Wallace

Rocks are like human beings; they will bend before force, if you give them time enough and are not too rough with them.

Reginald Aldworth Daly

The geologist, ascending from the oldest and lowest portions of the earth's crust, and dealing for millions of years with physical forces and the instinctive powers of animals alone, at length as he approaches the surface finds himself in contact with an entirely new agency, the free-will and conscious action of man.

John William Dawson

If the continents have moved, then they have drifted like rafts and formed the ocean floors in their wake. It is to this wake that we should look first.

John Tuzo Wilson

Perhaps it is because we know so much about magmas that we have such a vivid appreciation of what there is yet to learn.

Norman L. Bowen

It is almost with a sense of shock that we realize that the essence of physics and chemistry alike lies in the arrangements within the atom.

Robert Charles Wallace