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Thinking about the earth (1996)
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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.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
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David Roger Oldroyd
Born:
January 20, 1936
Died:
November 7, 2014
(aged 78)
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