Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Bayliss , Sir William Maddock (1920), Principles of general physiology, Retrieved on 2012-01-04Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: physiology Memes
04 JAN 2012
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 done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.The greatness of the scientific investigator is in the ability to admit mistakes.
04 JAN 2012
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 of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.Impartiality defined here as holding a collection of conflicting viewpoints, where it is better to hold no opinion at all.