GU Definition of Creativity
Geoscience
Type Quotes
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
-Richard Feynman
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-Mary Lou Cook
A creative idea be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful (or influential) in a particular social setting.
–Alice Flaherty
To be pure scientists we must rely on the basic fundamentals requisite for sound exploration which can be summed up in one word --- ingenuity! The synonyms of ingenuity would cover several pages. In order for you to grasp the full connotation of the word, I will cite a few: --- inventive talent, keen perception, skill, resourcefulness, sharpness, ability, readiness, acuteness, capacity, aptitude, intelligence, inspiration, felicity, cleverness, aptness, proficiency, competence, attainment, accomplishment, adroitness, expertness, dexterity, efficiency, mastery, excellence, and genius. Now, I will sum up all of these various meanings into still one other word --- creativity!
-Michel T. Halbouty
Science is always an interaction of prevailing culture, individual eccentricity and empirical restraint
-Steven J. Gould
It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
-Charles Darwin
The successful oil finder of the future will be the explorationist who thinks --- and one who is dedicated to the proposition that he must use his intensive reasoning powers of imagination, and must use the very best ideas and tools from others in order to get optimum value from the available knowledge. When this happens we will be practicing the art of finding oil and gas as true scientists --- as pure, thoroughly trained, well-rounded petroleum explorers --- not as unilateral specialists limited in scope, in knowledge and thinking power.
-Michel T. Halbouty
An opportunity must be provided for those men with the capacity and with the ability for doing creative geology to actually do geology, and in addition, to be able to spend a part of their time with their feet on a desk looking out of the window where they can generate ideas and where they can reconstruct in their mind the conditions and environments of past geologic ages.
A. I. Levorsen
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
-Charles Dickens
