Principles of general physiology
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1920
- Retrieved
- Jan 4, 2012
- ISBN
- yY0EAQAAIA
2 memes from this reference
Better to Be Wrong Than Impartial
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture…
Give Up Untenable Positions
But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has…