Men Are Conscious Quotes by Willis R. Whitney

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Willis R. Whitney has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to…
• The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with…
• I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste…
• In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

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