1. "As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2," says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University. “只要我们还在消耗化石燃料，我们就在排放二氧化碳。”哥伦比亚大学的地球物理学家克劳斯· 拉克内说。
2. Canadian geophysicist Tuzo Wilson realized that this age progression could result if the islands were formed on a surface plate moving over a fixed volcanic source in the interior. 加拿大地球物理学家 Tuzo Wilson 意识到，如果一块在内部固定火山源上移动的表面板块形成了岛屿，就会导致岛屿年龄增加。
3. You can dream of becoming a civil engineering expert, a biologist and even a geophysicist. 你可以梦想当一名土木工程专家，当一名生物学家，甚至当一名地球物理学家。
4. We call them great earthquakes. Everybody else calls them horrible, said USGS geophysicist Ken Hudnut. 美国地质调查局的地球物理学家肯•赫德纳特说：“我们称它们为超级地震，它们的力量十分可怕。”
5. Marine geophysicist Jian Lin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts agrees. 林键是马萨诸塞州伍兹·霍尔海洋学学会的地球物理学家，他对此表示同意。
