Quotes by Grove Karl Gilbert

"The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous."
Grove Karl Gilbert
"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
Grove Karl Gilbert

Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.