Geology, a School for Life
Dear students in geology and geophysics,
I address you a warm fellow greeting,
with honest and deep appreciation for the scientific field you represent –
geology and geophysics – is honoured today by a large scientific event. It
is a good sign of the future we desire that we can meet so many young faces,
students in geology and geophysics topday in this hall. There is no bigger
pride for the Romanian geology and geophysics faculties but their former
students success on national and international level, both in the field they
had graduated from and from other activities.
During the last two decades, Liberty and
Democracy have brought about a new issue: the difficulty of choice. It is
often said and with a base that to choose is even more important than the
choice made. The courage to choose and the strength to want to find out what
you can be are essential in a world where the future cannot be predicted in
detail, but whose main lines we can anticipate, inclusiding as potential
dangers and risks. That is why I believe that the most important message I
will transmit you is „Be yourselves” or, more precisely „Become yourselves”.
The time you spend within the university
represents the rights moment to make yourselves a formation not only as
future graduates in a certain field, but especially as people. It is
obviously an important thing to be well prepared for the profession one has
chosen, and from my experience, I can assert that profession never betrays
you. Fortune, money, positions – you can lose then anytime. People,
sometimes those you have believed in, often betray you. The profession never
does it. It is essential to master yourself, your knowledge and your value.
Along with good professional knowledge
one also need the ability to anticicpate and a positive vision upon life.
Upon life generally and upon your own life.
I have always told my students that, in
order to be a goo prospector, it is not enough to be very intelligent, it is
not enough to be very well qualified in your fiels. You need to be sure that
you will discover something through searching. If you’ve got this certainty
and a positive attitude when acting your activity, maybe you will not find
what you are looking for, but you wil certainly find something. Even though
nobody can see the world of tomorrow, with its fast change that surprises
you sometimes, we need to hold the capability to distinguish what is good
and and important for the progress.
Compared to our short biological history,
rocks, ores or fossil fuels have not been changed.
Except the volcanos eruptions and the
earthquakes that belong to the hazard geology, the rocks, the oresor the
fossile fuels have known little changes taking into account our short
biological history. We have changed and we can read more and more
information from their site. They remain a pretious witness of the earth
history and, if we know to ask the right questions, we will obtain quality
answers. However, we also owe more to geology and to the geophysics: a
certain way to be and to apprehend the world. These
sciences teach us how to avoid final decisions and how to approach our
planet mysterious and profound nature with care and respect.
Dear students, I wish you not to forget
that intelligence without character is, as they say, „a burden and not a
blessing”.
Science has not promised us either
richness or hapiness. It promises the truth.
If we will know to look for it with
passion and skill, we will be able to build both our wealth and our hapiness.
It is vital for us to believe, to believe
in something. You and your successes represent the strongest argument to
prove the truth that Romania has a future Romanians deserve to fight for, to
work for and to send their offsprings to learn.
Trust your forces, trust your profession
and do not forget the professors who have taught you the knowledge through
science and education for life.
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