Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about William Diller Matthew
William Diller Matthew Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
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.
William Diller Matthew
Source
Report...
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.
William Diller Matthew
Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
William Diller Matthew
Born:
February 19, 1871
Died:
September 24, 1930
(aged 59)
Known for:
Climate and Evolution (1915)
William Diller Matthew on Wikipedia
William Diller Matthew works on Gutenberg Project
William Diller Matthew works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Paleontologist Quotes
Paleontologist Quotes
19th-century Paleontologist Quotes
Related Authors
Edwin H. Colbert
American Paleontologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
American Naturalist
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
