Raymond Lyttleton Quotes

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Many very serious-minded, solid, and knowledgeable people work hard in science all their lives and produce nothing of the smallest importance, while others, few by comparison and perhaps seemingly carefree and not highly erudite, exhibit a serendipity of mind that enables them to have valuable ideas in any subject they may choose to take up.

Raymond Lyttleton

A new idea may be likened to a new-born babe: it is to be carefully nurtured and given every consideration rather than attacked with the choking diet of a multitude of so-called facts because it cannot prove at once that it will one day grow into a Samson.

Raymond Lyttleton