Samuel Warren Carey quotes
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“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.”
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“The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.”
-- Samuel Warren CareySource : 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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Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
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“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”
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“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”
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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“Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.”
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