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“Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice,” Bush wrote, “in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Substack • Seeing Wetiko
Like Humboldt before him, he took the greatest pride in the influence he had on the next generation of naturalists. And indeed the subsequent careers of his students and museum assistants are as strong a testament to his genius as almost anything else.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Others, including Priestley and both Darwins, used their commonplace books as a repository for a vast miscellany of hunches.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Le grand voyage du pays des Hurons
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
He knew that difficulties already existed in reconciling these two approaches to the world – the scientific and the religious. But he hoped that those stumbling blocks would be overcome with further investigation – with no serious damage to either mode of philosophy, saying ‘neither will the ardour of science be discouraged, nor the full confidence
... See moreAlice Roberts • Ancestors
Nature is like a sculptor continually improving upon her work, but to do it she chisels away at living flesh.