Agnes Arber - The mind and the eye (1954)

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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.

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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.

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