GV The Need for Tension
Geoscience
Type Quotes
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
-Horace
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
-Samuel Johnson
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
-Walt Disney
He had a good fixed-price contract.. If he moved elsewhere he would have to drop his price. So he was desperate to squeeze more from the Barnett Shale, where he had lots of drilling rights. ........ His wife had Alzheimer's and he had prostate problems. By rights the 78-year -old multimillionaire should have been reasonable, ........ But Mitchell, like many innovators, was not reasonable, so he kept trying to get the gas to flow.
-Matt Ridley of George Mitchell
The man and his fossils can be imprisoned, but not his idea.
-William Smith
The Earth was 4.5 billion years old. In 1956, Patterson published his number in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Critics bristled. “I had some of the best, most able critics in the world trying to destroy my number,” he said. Each time they tried to prove it wrong, they failed. At one point, an evangelist knocked on Patterson’s door to kindly inform him that he was going to Hell.
-Of Clair Patterson
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
-Benjamin Franklin
I think it's tremendously important at this particular time to keep thinking about creativity in geology, because this is an era in which it is extremely easy to fall into the belief that advanced technology and hardware can do our thinking for us.
S. W. Totten
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.
-John Ruskin
