Theobald Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if the products of our labor are not read or even known to exist. The joy of research must be found in doing since every other harvest is uncertain.
-- Theobald Smith

#Hard Work #Joy #Research
No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.
-- Theobald Smith

#Hard Work #Research #Answers
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we may keep on the chosen road but it does not itself necessarily lead to discovery. The investigator must be ready and on the spot when the light comes from whatever direction.
-- Theobald Smith

#Adventure #Thinking #Discovery
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.
-- Theobald Smith

#Running #Long #Facts
While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.
-- Theobald Smith

#Nature #Mean #Agency
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.
-- Theobald Smith

#Too Much #Fruit #Research
Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.
-- Theobald Smith

#Research #Groups #Problem
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.
-- Theobald Smith

#Adventure #Discovery #Logical

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
Labor is the true standard of value.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

Theobald Smith famous quotes

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