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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
(12 Mar 1863 - 6 Jan 1945)
Russian geochemist and mineralogist.
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Science Quotes by Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (3 quotes)
An organism is involved with the environment to which it is not only adapted but which is adapted to it as well.
— Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
In A.V. Lapo, 'Problemy biogeokhimii' (“Problems of Biogeochemistry”), Works of the Biogeochemical Laboratory (1980), 16, 123.
The crust of erosion is always linked to life.
— Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
In A.V. Lapo, 'Problemy biogeokhimii' (“Problems of Biogeochemistry”), Works of the Biogeochemical Laboratory (1980), 16, 123.
Thought isn’t a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.
— Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
As quoted in Eric Roston, The Carbon Age: How Life’s Core Element Has Become Civilization’s Gratest Threat (2009), 117.
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- 12 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Vernadsky's birth.
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) --
Carl Sagan
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