Discovery Quote by George Stigler Download Open image “Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” — George Stigler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Law Originals Science Scientific discovery
“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” — Stephen M. Stigler Copy Share Image
Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of… — Robert Barany Copy Share Image
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
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