William Herbert Hobbs Quotes

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Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.

William Herbert Hobbs
If we are to gauge the generally accepted hypotheses of any science and arrive at individual conclusions respecting their value, we must be prepared to inquire into the ancestry of each - we must trace out the route by which each has come to its present position of eminence.

William Herbert Hobbs
It is a truism that the influence of things seen is more potent than that of things merely heard of or read about.

William Herbert Hobbs
The student of geology would, however, do well to take note of the early dominant influence of Werner or von Buch in Germany, of de Beaumont in France, of Murchison in England, or of Agassiz, the "Pope of American science."

William Herbert Hobbs
It is safe to say that no topographic feature is more characteristic of the mountains which have been occupied by glaciers than is the cirque. Approaching a range from a considerable distance, there is certainly no feature which so quickly forces itself upon the attention.

William Herbert Hobbs
Experience has shown that whenever a new and more advanced viewpoint has been gained to take the place of an earlier one, and its superiority has come to be acknowledged, the tendency has always been to sketch in from that one standpoint even the more distant objects, rather than to move forward to new and independent positions.

William Herbert Hobbs