The heritage left us by the early petroleum geologists has been ignored and practically forgotten. Those geologists should be remembered not so much for their achievements, but for their methods of applying the geological science and their contribution to it. These methods and contributions should be "dusted off" and restudied, and once again used as guideposts for future thinking. Their intrepidity, firm persuasion, and complete dependence on sheer intellect created the basic concepts which were responsible for world-wide, successful petroleum exploration. It is stressed that, to meet exploration requirements of the future, the profession must develop more original ideas, and not be afraid to push those ideas forward into fruition. It is only then that modern geologists ill emulate their predecessors, who, as pure scientists and free-thinkers, conquered their problems through their strong courage of conviction.

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