Willis R. Whitney Quotes
- Research is appreciation.
- The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
- Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
- Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to…
- Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of…
- The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove…
- I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse…
- In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.