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Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

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Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

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The joy of research must be found in doing, since every other harvest is uncertain.

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While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.

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It is incumbent upon us to keep training and pruning the tree of knowledge without looking to the right or the left.

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It is the care we bestow on apparently trifling, unattractive and very troublesome minutiae which determines the results.

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Theobald Smith

Theobald Smith

Born: July 31, 1859

Died: December 10, 1934 (aged 75)

Bio: Theobald Smith was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely considered to be America's first internationally significant medical research scientist.

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