Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Agassiz , Louis and Agassiz , Elizabeth Cabot Cary (2011-03-27), Geological Sketches. [The preface signed: E. C. A., i.e. Elizabeth C. Agassiz. With a portrait.], British Library, Historical Print Editions, Retrieved on 2011-08-30
Folksonomies: geology natural history Memes
30 AUG 2011
Geology is Like Putting a Puzzle Together
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand. 1 
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notes...to find a complete picture form under the scientist's hands.
30 AUG 2011
The Need to Cross-Pollinate Knowledge
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,—when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,—when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,—then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that th...Folksonomies: progress cross-pollination
Folksonomies: progress cross-pollination
1 Chemsits and physicists must come out and study nature, while geologists and zoologists must go into the lab, so that scientific progress may multiply.
