Conclusions
May I conclude very shortly by making some general remarks.
One very good advice of Stini: to approach a problem from outside, proceed from totality to details.
Another good suggestion was given to me by my teacher Terzaghi who said: observe everything and try to explain what you observed! To this I would like to add: be afraid to trust too simple, plausible explanations.
May I add another suggestion: try always to combine theory and practice and to confront ideas and experience.
Furthermore: do not use follow-ups or check lists or classifications as a mental by-pass of the responsible duty of assessment, of judgments, of creative decisions! Learn from life, that contrasts are not contradictions.
Living on a star, on a beautiful home star, we should feel responsible for it, more than till now; we should feel obliged to keep it alive. Engineering geologists can do a lot in this direction.
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Text of the conference prepared by L. L. Müller for the 4th International Congress of the I.A.E.G., New Delhi, 1982. Texte de la conférence préparée par L. Müller pour le 4e Congrès International de l'A.I.G.I., New Delhi, 1982.
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Müller, L. The influence of engineering geology and rock mechanics in tunnelling. Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology 38, 5–13 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02590443
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