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In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Also Amount Biology Certain Disparate Facts Families Features Fields Genera Geological Information Large Large Numbers Name Names Numbers Other Patterns Reason Reduce Science See Species Take Them Types Use

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Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Across Active Activity Billion Cool Examples Expected Fact Four Geological Half History In Fact Like Long Massive Numerous Off Planet Planets Pluto Scale Showing Small Still Would Years

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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Geological Historical Ingrained Memories Stone

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What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Artist Beginning Between Connections Cosmos Does Draws Earth End Geological He History Invisible Manifest Mankind The History Of Things Threads Ties

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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

~Charles Sturt

Topics: Change Country Features Find Geological Line Little Place Shall Strike Sydney Takes Valley

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My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.

~David Grann

Topics: Books Bunch Floor Geological Like More Night Own Piled Stand Strata Structure

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What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Conversations Earth Geological Going History Interested Means Ourselves Part View

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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Barely Change Changes Environmental Evolutionary Explosive Geological Happening Incremental Lives Often Our Our Lives Perspectives Register Year

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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Altered Biological Chemical Geological Globe Left Part Physical Planet Properties Scale

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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Ability Altering Amplified Biological Chemical Decades Economy Experts Geological Global Global Economy Human Look Numbers Our Properties Scientists Technology Us Warned Ahead

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