“[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.”
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Thomas George Bonney
Thomas George Bonney was an outstanding geologist, born on July 27, 1833, and died on December 10, 1923. He had a profound impact on the field of geology, particularly in the areas of petrology, mineralogy, and geological structures. more
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