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Philip E. Janney
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geologist who was at the Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (1999-2006), and later at the University of Cape Town in Toronto, Canada.
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Science Quotes by Philip E. Janney (3 quotes)
If there is a major eruption [of Vesuvius] with little warning and the winds are blowing toward Naples, you could have tremendous loss of life.
— Philip E. Janney
As quoted in Doug Stewart, 'Resurrecting Pompeii', Smithsonian Magazine (Feb 2006).
One of the ironies of volcanoes is that they tend to produce very fertile soils, and that tends to lure people to live around them.
— Philip E. Janney
As quoted in Doug Stewart, 'Resurrecting Pompeii', Smithsonian Magazine (Feb 2006).
Vesuvius is actually inside the exploded skeleton of an older volcano. If you look at an aerial photograph, you can see the remaining ridge of a much larger volcano on the north side.
— Philip E. Janney
As quoted in Doug Stewart, 'Resurrecting Pompeii', Smithsonian Magazine (Feb 2006). Stewart adds, “It likely blew, violently, long before human settlement.”
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
