Quotes About Earth

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

The only truly alien planet is Earth.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.