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Since the first step in biological research involves the decision as the question on which to concentrate, the researcher is at once put upon his mettle, for the full recognition and appreciation of a problem may task him even more severely than its solution.

Agnes Arber

A record of research should not resemble a casual pile of quarried stone; it should seem "not built, but born", as Vasari said in praise of a building.

Agnes Arber

Agnes Arber

Agnes Arber

Born: February 23, 1879

Died: March 22, 1960 (aged 81)

Bio: Agnes Robertson Arber FRS was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life.

Known for:

Water Plants: A Study of Aquatic Angiosperms (1920)
The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form (1950)
The mind and the eye (1954)
Monocotyledons: A Morphological Study (1925)

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