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Many a false theory gets crystallized by time and absorbed into the body of scientific doctrine through lack of adequate criticism when it is formulated.
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It has been well observed that the imagination of man does not really enable him to create anything new, but only to recombine or rearrange what he has seen.
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William Diller Matthew
Born:
February 19, 1871
Died:
September 24, 1930
(aged 59)
Known for:
Climate and Evolution (1915)
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