German Geologist Quotes

Abraham Gottlob Werner

Ferdinand Zirkel

Karl Georg von Raumer

I would rather have a mineral ill-classified and well-described, than well-classified and ill-described.

Abraham Gottlob Werner

I became a geologist forever by seeing with my own eyes: THE EARTH IS ALIVE.

In the pure mathematics is the point for setting the lever which will move the world; it is the center from which light radiates to innumerable points on the circumference - to innumerable sciences and arts.

Karl Georg von Raumer

No science can exist wholly for itself alone, exerting neither a passive nor an active influence. Each science must make some use of the results acquired by allied branches of knowledge for the furthering of its own advancement, and again each must contribute from its own results toward the advancement of other sciences.

Ferdinand Zirkel

There were many examples in the history of life so show that precisely the most perfectly adapted, the physically biggest and strongest, the most numerous creatures, the lords of whole periods of life, died out in the end with monotonous regularity leaving the torch of life to be carried forward by smaller, more modest and often previously almost unnoticed forms of life, until they too fell into the trap of all too perfect adaptation.