Archibald Geikie Quotes

United Kingdom, Geologist
December 28, 1835 – November, 10, 1924.

Sir Archibald Geikie OM KCB PRS FRSE FRS, was a Scottish geologist and writer. Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of Isabella Thom and her husband James Stuart Geikie, a musician and music critic. The elder brother of James Geikie, he was educated at Edinburgh High School and University of Edinburgh.

Also known as Writer

The present is the key to the past.

Archibald Geikie
- Past
- Present
- Key
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... When spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.

Archibald Geikie

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Archibald Geikie
- History
- Nature
- Science
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

Archibald Geikie
- Company
- Autumn
- Holidays
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.

Archibald Geikie
- Work
- Books
- Boulder