Swiss Geologist Quotes

The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement that animated and still animates these bodies because the history continues and we live under no particular privileged conditions at any given time in this great process.

To describe, without rising to the causes, or descending to the consequences, is no more science, than merely and simply to relate a fact of which one has been a witness.

Arnold Henry Guyot

However important the quantitative treatment of a problem may be, the quality of the initial data remains solely decisive for the validity of the results, and these data must never be at variance with the facts observed in Nature.

Alfred Rittmann