Samuel Warren Carey quotes

“Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your examiners. Your statistics, or your observations, or your literature study, or your something else will be patently deficient. Do not doubt that in our enlightened age the really important advances are and will be rejected more often than acclaimed. Nor should we doubt that in our own professional lifetime we too will repudiate with like pontifical finality the most significant insight ever to reach our desk.”
-- Samuel Warren Carey

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“The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.”
-- Samuel Warren Carey

Source : Samuel Warren Carey (1988). “Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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“Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.”
-- Samuel Warren Carey

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“There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

“The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.”

“Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.”

“Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

“Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear”

“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

“Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.”

“There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons. All of which makes them easy and mouth watering targets for the believers.”