Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman Quotes

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Can science do something to check the wild revels of the imagination, confine it within the bounds of probability, and deduce such laws as will best serve to protect us from the destructive effects offerees that we cannot control.

Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

A mark of a good theory is that it proves even the most trivial results.

Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

Your theory is like an Irishman's wheelbarrow loaded with dirt: it is supported on one wheel - the rest you carry.

Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

Born: 1819

Died: 1888 (aged 69)

Bio: Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman was personal physician to Leland Stanford, the first governor of California. He is "'credited with counseling Mrs. Stanford sufficiently so that after eighteen years of marriage, she bore a son, Leland Jr.

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Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855 (1855)

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