Géologie

What makes people to undertake research?
This is a question of fundamental importance. The possible motives for doing research may be either one or more of
the following:
1. Desire to get a research degree along with its consequential benefits;
2. Desire to face the challenge in solving the unsolved problems, i.e., concern over practical problems initiates
research;
3. Desire to get intellectual joy of doing some creative work;
4. Desire to be of service to society;
5. Desire to get respectability.
However, this is not an exhaustive list of factors motivating people to undertake research studies. Many more factors
such as directives of government, employment conditions, curiosity about new things, desire to understand causal
relationships, social thinking and awakening, and the like may as well motivate (or at times compel) people to
perform research operations.