Geologist Quotes

What field geologists typically do - and Spirit is a robotic field geologist - is you climb to the top of the nearest hill and take a look around so you get the lay of the land and figure out where you want to go. - Steve Squyres

We need a geologist. - Penn Jillette

The reason they're holding off is that the geologists want to have more time to survey the mountainside. They want to get all the rocks at once. They don't want to have to scale the mountainside twice. - Jeff Weiss

The last time this happened in the Pacific Northwest, the geologists tell us, was 1701 so no one in our lifetime has seen it happen. - David Wu

The hot jobs for 2005 within the high-paying industries include geologists, finance professionals and engineers in the mining industry. - Ken Gilbert

The geologists have studied the hill, ... They have seen some additional areas that they have severe concerns about, and they're putting together a plan now on what to do as far as the recovery effort and allowing people to return to their homes. - Bob Roper

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit / not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves. - Henry David Thoreau

The average age of petroleum engineers is 49. It won't be very long until all our engineers, geologists and tech people are ready to retire. - Paul Poley

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man. - Charles Lyell