Peter Ritchie Calder Quote

The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending upon the intermarriage of ideas. The family tree of a major scientific discovery is usually more impressively international than that of the most august royal house.


Profile of Science, Chapter 2 (p. 32)


The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending ...

The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending ...

The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending ...

The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending ...