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Tuzo Wilson
(24 Oct 1908 - 15 Apr 1993)
Canadian geologist and geophysicist.
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Science Quotes by Tuzo Wilson (3 quotes)
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
— Tuzo Wilson
As quoted G.D. Garland in obituary 'John Tuzo Wilson', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Nov 1995), 552.
I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.
[About pioneering with his new ideas.]
[About pioneering with his new ideas.]
— Tuzo Wilson
As quoted by Neil Shubin in The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body (2013), 113
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
— Tuzo Wilson
From J. Tuzo Wilson, 'Early Days in University Geophysics', Ann. Rev. Earth Planet Sci. (1982), 10, 4.
See also:
- 24 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Wilson's birth.