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Thomas Henry Holland
(22 Nov 1868 - 15 May 1947)
British geologist.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Henry Holland (1)
The intensity and quantity of polemical literature on scientific problems frequently varies inversely as the number of direct observations on which the discussions are based: the number and variety of theories concerning a subject thus often form a coefficient of our ignorance. Beyond the superficial observations, direct and indirect, made by geologists, not extending below about one two-hundredth of the Earth's radius, we have to trust to the deductions of mathematicians for our ideas regarding the interior of the Earth; and they have provided us successively with every permutation and combination possible of the three physical states of matter—solid, liquid, and gaseous.
— Thomas Henry Holland
'Address delivered by the President of Section [Geology] at Sydney (Friday, Aug 21), Report of the Eighty-Fourth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Australia 1914, 1915, 345.
See also: | Deduction (13) | Discussion (8) | Earth (93) | Geology (109) | Ignorance (62) | Mathematics (221) | Observation (142) | Publication (60) | Theory (179)
