Reginald Aldworth Daly Quotes

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At bottom each 'exact' science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
This planet is essentially a body of crystallized and uncrystallized igneous material. The final philosophy of earth history will therefore be founded on igneous-rock geology.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
And the secret of it all - the secret of the earthquake, the secret of the "temple of fire," the secret of the ocean basin, the secret of the highland - is in the heart of the earth, forever invisible to human eyes.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
The metaphysician has found that the real is the invisible. This is eminently true of the earth. The real earth is not its visible skin, but the visible skin plus the much bulkier hidden stuff within.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
The "facts" of today are the hypotheses of yesterday.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
Our study deals with numbers, quantities, measurements, for these form the essence of the truth of nature.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
What geology, like every other science, needs today is a frank recognition that imaginative thought is not dangerous to science but is the life blood of science.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
A final philosophy of the Earth's crust must be largely founded upon the unshakable facts known about igneous rocks.

Reginald Aldworth Daly
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