Quotes About Plate Tectonics

#1. The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Carson Daly

#2. Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

Robert Duncan

#3. published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one American geologist in eight still didn't believe in plate tectonics. Today

Bill Bryson

#4. The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Simon Winchester

#5. Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Seth Shostak

#6. Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

Seth Shostak

#7. If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

James Lovelock

#8. Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.

Seth Shostak

#9. I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I really started playing a lot after I turned pro and I had some time in the off-season.

John Elway

#10. Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

J. Tuzo Wilson

#11. Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

Epictetus

#12. I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Alice Walker

#13. The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

Otto Von Bismarck

#14. A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

Michael Hersch

#15. Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Alice Walker

#17. Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

William Stone

#18. Smelling Eddie on Eddie was disturbing enough. Smelling Eddie on me was too much of a good thing.

Kristen Ashley

#19. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.

Max Lucado

#20. The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Abdu'l- Baha