2012-12-09

Quote Of The Day

Busy doing some translation work so haven't posted. Will be done today.

For now I hand things over, but for a few lines, to Canadian man of science (and one of the founders of John Hopkins) William Osler:

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinced the world. not the man to whom the idea first occurs."

I think to most keen observers of history and life, this becomes evident with time and experience.
Posted by T.C.

2 comments:

  1. Douglas12/09/2012

    The quote, I think, is accurate and applies not only to science. The question is, then, are we motivated by external rewards or internal ones?

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  2. T.C.12/09/2012

    Hm. I'm gonna go with internal. We're driven for internal reasons since we don't know what the external rewards will be in the first place. A lot of these guys were driven by love of whatever they were studying or engaging in.

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