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Scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown..

Archibald Garrod

[Scientific method] acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

Archibald Garrod

Archibald Garrod

Archibald Garrod

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Born: November 25, 1857

Died: March 28, 1936 (aged 78)

Bio: Sir Archibald Edward Garrod KCMG FRS was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. He served as Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 1920 to 1927.

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