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The growth of science depends on three things: - First. The unknown, which is discoverable. Second. Raw knowledge. Third. Assimilated knowledge.

Charles Sedgwick Minot

The biological bibliographer is like an explorer in a forest - he finds no open way to travel, but must laboriously hunt for the specimens which belong in the same class according to our intellectual systems, and which he must discover as they lie scattered, unclassified, and, all too often, concealed.

Charles Sedgwick Minot

A generalization is a mountain of observations; from the summit the outlook is broad. The great observer climbs to the outlook, while the mere thinker struggles to imagine it.

Charles Sedgwick Minot

Charles Sedgwick Minot

Charles Sedgwick Minot

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Born: December 23, 1852

Died: November 19, 1914 (aged 61)

Bio: Charles Sedgwick Minot was an American anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.

Known for:

The Problem Of Age, Growth, And Death (1907)
Human Embryology (1892)
Modern Problems of Biology (1913)

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