Geology

John Muir

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul."

🇺🇸Louis Agassiz

Science

1807–1873

"The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal."

🇬🇧Douglas Mawson

Science

1882–1958

"If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance."

🇫🇷Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion

1881–1955

"The Human Phenomenon Excerpts from the book"

🇺🇸Charles R. Van Hise

Science

1857–1918

"I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every family of the state."

🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"“Only that man... who is deluded, who is desirous of acquiring profits, who has neither deliberated upon his own religion, nor looked at the defects in Christianity, would become a Christian."

🇺🇸Henry Fairfield Osborn

Science

1857–1935

"This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth."

🇷🇺Dmitri Mendeleev

Science

1834–1907

"The Principles of Chemistry, Vol.2 Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, George Kamensky, Thomas Atkinson Lawson"

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Science

1904–1983

"The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science."

🇬🇧William Buckland

Science

1784–1856

"The taste of mole was the most repulsive I knew until I tasted a bluebottle ."

"What used to be an advantage had quickly turned into a liability, proving once more that in the mountains, as in life, nothing comes easily."

🇺🇸James Dwight Dana

Science

1813–1895

"The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word."