Quote#Science & Reason
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to…
Quote byFrancis Darwin · 1848–1925
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Francis Galton", the first Galton Lecture, delivered before the Eugenics Education Society, 16 February 1914; reprinted, with some changes, from the Eugenics Review of April 1914, in Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History (London: John Murray, 1917), p. 24.
English (original)
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.
— Francis Darwin
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