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“Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.”

Book:Advice to a young scientist

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Advice to a young scientist

This book provides valuable advice and wisdom for young scientists, covering topics such as research methods, career development, and the importance of curiosity and perseverance. more

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Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar was a British biologist and immunologist recognized for his work in transplantation immunology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960 for his discovery of immunological tolerance. more

“[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.”

“[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.”

Believe May Science Lying Duty Highest Evidence Scientist Inclination Jars

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.”

Writing Remember Science Wish Learning Ads Quantum

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.”

Science Learning Stamps Dictionary Collecting

Author:Linus Pauling

“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).”

Science Used Term Learning Mere Acquire Tails Pope Superficial Hunters Consulting Allusion Eels Superficial Knowledge

Author:Tobias Smollett

“Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.”

World Hands Science Powerful Learning Excellent Most Powerful Skillful Mercury Mischievous

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.”

Mind Littles Art Made Science Learning Flight Chiefs Fabric Propositions Accumulation Lofty Excursions

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.”

Should Firsts Science Order Learning Thirds Reverse Arrangements Edifice

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.”