The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulations, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.


Science and Common Sense, Chapter Three (p. 44), Yale University Press. 1951

James Bryant Conant Quotes

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations,...

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations,...

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations,...

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations,...