GD Problem Recognition and Questions
Geoscience
Type Quotes
Recognizing a problem doesn’t always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
-James Baldwin
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking?
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
always the beautiful answer who ask a more beautiful question
-e. e. cummings
Establishing the rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge that went all the way around the world for 40,000 miles—that was something important,” she wrote. “You could only do that once. You can’t find anything bigger than that, at least on this planet.
-Marie Tharp
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence.
-Louis Agassiz
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
-G.K. Gilbert
Nothing in geology is more certain than change: even the cliffs on which you stand are doomed.
-Richard Fortey
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life,
and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance
as my uncle offering to drive me thirty miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles
would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose. I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved, though they were always fairly developed. The investigation of the geology of all the places visited was far more important, as reasoning here comes into play.
-Charles Darwin of his first voyage on the HMS Beagle
Creativity in geology is the ability to ask the right question.....geological mysteries are all around us but you have to recognize them to be creative.
-Jack Elam
A common fallacy among laymen, and also among some geologists who should know better, is the notion that the era of geologic mapping is over or at least that the end is in sight.............It is not that the rocks have changed, it is that our ideas about them have grown and require different and better maps.
-F. L. Pettijohn
Map it and it will all come out right.
-Charles Lapworth
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
-Tuzo Wilson
