“Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain.” ThinkingYearsHumansImportantWholeScienceHuman BeingsBrainDoubtRocksDangerPressureStatementsFactorsNo DoubtRepresentingInfancyGeologyWhole TruthEstimating Author:Thomas George Bonney
“The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.” BookScienceCoursesFailingFieldsSeriousAdvantageDifficultyProfitWideStatementsDepartmentLabourVocabularyEmployedPrecisionImpedimentsInvestigatorsTerminologyTechnicalitiesGeneralisation Author:Thomas George Bonney
