Selman Waksman Quote

Good scientists use research plans merely as outlines to begin their investigations and are ready to give them up once they are not justified by actual findings. Experimental designs tend to give rise to "team research", which serves a purpose in developing and applying ideas; it rarely produces new ideas.


Searchers and Researchers, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 7, Number 3, Spring, 1964 (p. 312)


Good scientists use research plans merely as outlines to begin their investigations and are ready to give them up once they are not justified by...

Good scientists use research plans merely as outlines to begin their investigations and are ready to give them up once they are not justified by...

Good scientists use research plans merely as outlines to begin their investigations and are ready to give them up once they are not justified by...

Good scientists use research plans merely as outlines to begin their investigations and are ready to give them up once they are not justified by...