GS Utilization and Innovation
Geoscience
Type Quotes
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
-Jame Russell Lowell
You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services
-Raphael
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
-Benjamin Franklin
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
-Thomas A. Edison
The practical applications of new discoveries in science sometimes extend faster and further than the knowledge of the general principles on which they depend.
-William Smith
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.
-Charles Francis Richter
The oil finders do something else. They sell themselves on their interpretations and in turn sell their ideas to others capable of completing the discovery process. The loss of a good idea through poor salesmanship may postpone indefinitely the discovery of an important oil or gas field or new producing province. Salesmanship is the all-important follow-through.
-Ira Cram
The way to sell an idea to another is to state your case moderately and accurately. This causes your listener to be receptive and, like as not, he will turn about and convince you of the worth of your idea. But if you go at him in a tone of positiveness and arrogance, you are likely to turn him against your idea, no matter how good it is.
-Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
-Herbert Hoover
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Understanding is not enough; we must do. Knowing and understanding in action make for honor. And honor is the heart of wisdom."
-Johann von Goethe
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apothecary and the chemist.
-John Ruskin
The practical applications of new discoveries in science sometimes extend faster and further than the knowledge of the general principles on which they depend.
-William Smith
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
-Colin Powell
With a problem you search for the solution, with an opportunity you search for the benefit.
-Edward De Bono
