Factual argument
Li Siguang doesn't believe that foreigners believe in themselves.
Li Siguang, Zhong You, Huanggang, Hubei. Zhuo is a scientist and the founder of geomechanics.
Before the 1920s, there was a long-standing popular view in international geological geography that there were no Quaternary glaciers in China. Li Siguang believes that foreign geologists have not made a serious investigation. Why is there no Quaternary glacier in China? He doesn't trust foreigners. 192 1 year, Li Siguang personally went to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain in Hebei Province for geological survey. From 1933 to 1934, he visited Lushan, Jiuhua, Tianmu and Huangshan in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then wrote a paper to prove that Quaternary glaciers existed widely in North China and the Yangtze River basin. 1939, he published "Sinian Glacier in China" in the World Geological Society, and confirmed the existence of glacier relics in China with a large number of empirical evidence, which is a great contribution to geology, geography and anthropology.
At the beginning of the 20th century, American Mobil Oil Company drilled wells in western China to find oil, but found nothing. So a group of western scholars, led by Professor Blackwell in the United States, asserted that China has no oil underground and China is a "poor oil country".
Li Siguang, a young geologist, does not believe this evil: Mobil's failure cannot lead to the conclusion that there is no oil underground in China. He said: I don't believe this. Is oil only born underground in the west? Dominated by this strong self-confidence, he began his oil-seeking career for 30 years. He discovered Daqing Oilfield, Dagang Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield, Huabei Oilfield and Jianghan Oilfield with the theory of geological subsidence. He also foresaw oil in the northwest. The large oil field in Xinjiang being developed today also fully confirmed his prediction.
Li Siguang completely shattered "China's theory of being poor in oil" with self-confidence and self-improvement.
A confident person in trouble.
There are a group of people in the world who are full of self-confidence, self-improvement, and strive for progress. Despite adversity, they have finally achieved brilliant achievements. Demosthenes, a famous orator in ancient Greece, suffered from stuttering, stuttering and weak voice when he was young. His speeches are often booed. He always has confidence in himself. In order to overcome the disease, he has pebbles in his mouth and shouts for practice every morning. Finally, he became an eloquent speaker.
Helen Clara, a famous American woman writer, was deaf and blind due to illness in her childhood. She is confident and self-reliant. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, she is proficient in many foreign languages and is familiar with German, French, ancient Rome and Greek literature. At the age of 20, he was admitted to the famous Harvard University. Later he became a famous writer.
The famous German astronomer Kepler. When I was 4 years old, I had smallpox, which left me with dangerous sequelae. Later, I got scarlet fever, my eyes were damaged by high fever, and I was highly nearsighted. He suffered from illness all his life. But he never lost confidence, and he was fearless and high-spirited in the poverty and illness of more than 0 years. Three laws of planetary motion were established, which laid the foundation for Newton to discover universal gravitation. His important works include Mystery of the Universe, Summary of Copernican Astronomy, Harmony of the Universe, etc.
Taha husayn, an Egyptian writer and literary critic, went blind at the age of three. Tough and confident, he studied in France and became the first doctor in Egyptian history. His works include The Call of the Partridge, The Unfortunate Tree, Lovelorn and Autobiographical Days. He also wrote a large number of works such as literary criticism "Literature in the Pre-Islamic Era" and "History of Arabic Literature", which is known as "the pillar of Arabic literature".
It is not uncommon to lose confidence in adversity: Zhang Haidi was paraplegic due to illness in her childhood, and she worked hard to become a writer and translator with confidence; Gao Shiqi, known as the "Iron Man" in science and technology, has created more than 600,000 words of scientific essays and popular science papers, more than 2,000 lines of poems and more than a dozen new books under the condition that his illness has been deteriorating, from paraplegia to complete paralysis and loss of speech ability. Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote Li Sao. Sun Tzu wrote Sun Bin's Art of War after receiving the model; Sima Qian wrote historical records in a palace; Beethoven wrote this heroic symphony after he was deaf. When ostrovsky was writing How Steel was Tempered, he was blind and paralyzed.