William Buckland Quotes:
Ocupation: Geologist
Life: March 12, 1784 - August 14, 1856
Birthday: March 12
Death: August 14
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.
source: William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.7
topic: Keys, Intellectual, Employment
