GG Investigation, Analysis, and Persistence
Geoscience
Type Quotes
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish
-John Quincy Adams
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men without talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-Calvin Coolidge
Oil and gas are not found by flashes of genius but are a product of rigorous observations and tenacious, dogged, often dreary intensive work and study.
-B. W. Beebe
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grand-children may be. The geologists tell us that it took one hundred years to prove that fossils are organic, and one hundred and fifty more, to prove that they are not to be referred to the Noachian deluge.
-Henry David Thoreau
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
-Colin Powell
Go, my sons, buy stout shoes, climb the mountains, search...the deep recesses of the earth...In this way and in no other will you arrive at a knowledge of the nature and properties of things.
-Severinus
I would rather have a mineral ill-classified and well-described, than well-classified and ill-described.
-Abraham Werner
The most important tool of which any geologist is possessed is his mind, the one tool which is sharpened and not dulled by use.
Everette DeGolyer
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
Marquis de Lafayette
Thinking is the hardest work there is, that's why so few people do it.
-Henry Ford
