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Grove Karl Gilbert
(6 May 1843 - 1 May 1918)

American geologist and geomorphologist.


Science Quotes by Grove Karl Gilbert (2)

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.
— Grove Karl Gilbert
'The Origin of Hypotheses, illustrated by the Discussion of a Topographical Problem', Science, 1896, 3, 13.
See also:  |  Knowledge (330)  |  Nature (243)

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
— Grove Karl Gilbert
'The Origin of Hypotheses, illustrated by the Discussion of a Topographical Problem', Science, 1896, 3, 2.
See also:  |  Theory (179)


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