Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Wallace Pratt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American geologist Wallace Pratt.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Wallace Pratt

Wallace Everette Pratt (1885–1981) was a pioneer American petroleum geologist. He is also notable for helping establish Guadalupe Mountains National Park through his donation of McKittrick Canyon.

Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds. — © Wallace Pratt
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
Where oil is first found is in the minds of men
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.
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