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Facts that have aged in the course of their collection and preparation for consumption are likely to be too stale for practical use. Dating an egg doesn't keep it good.

George Otis Smith

The chief purpose of words is to convey thoughts, and unless the wavelengths of the words are right the receiving apparatus will utterly fail to pick up the thoughts.

George Otis Smith

If truth is a path, then science explores it, and the brief stops along the way are where technologies begin (they build towns and pave a highway). Technology is results, science is process; though the two fuse and separate and then fuse once more, as ends and means must, their opposition is profound.

George Otis Smith

Statistics need to be much more than the output of a battery of adding machines. The ideal collection of facts is the man who has spent years as a specialist in the work and in this way knows the reality behind the words and figures. Only the personal touch that comes from intimate familiarity with facts at their source can give life to statistics.

George Otis Smith

It seems that in our hunt for general principles we feel the need of tagging each observed fact with some word that may connect it with the language in which the great fundamental laws of the universe are proclaimed at the seats of learning.

George Otis Smith

George Otis Smith

George Otis Smith

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Born: February 22, 1871

Died: January 10, 1944 (aged 72)

Bio: George Otis Smith was an American geologist.

Known for:

The geology of the Fox Islands, Maine (1896)
The Classification of the Public Lands (1913)

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