Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire Quotes

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A theory which touches reality at no point cannot be disproved or proved by an appeal to reality.

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

Those who prefer swimming out of their depth may speculate upon first causes and on what happens after death. But the biologist, whose business is the difficult task of understanding life, must be careful to undertake a much less ambitious and precarious task.

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

Facts are like the dolls of the ventriloquist and say what we want them to.

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

The cocksureness of the scientific biologist should surely be the cause of the gravest misgivings. The more certain a man is that he is right the more probable is it that he is wrong; because it means that facts are as soft clay in his hands, and his certainty moulds them to his purpose.

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

I see theories as balloons. Their makers inflate them, their admirers over-inflate them; and they generally burst from over-inflation.

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

Born: February 14, 1879

Died: December 26, 1915 (aged 36)

Bio: Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire was a short-lived but vital British zoologist and geneticist who helped pave the way for Dolly the Sheep. He was the first person to lecture in Genetics in Britain.

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