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Charles Manning Child
(2 Feb 1869 - 19 Dec 1954)
American zoologist known for
work on sensitivity and reactivity of
animal organisms, but especially on reproduction, development, and
especially regeneration.
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“Do experimental work but keep in
mind that other investigators in the
same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as
important as they seem to you.”
— attributed to
Charles Manning Child
in the dedication to The Ecology of
North America
by Victor Shelford (1963)
by Victor Shelford (1963)
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --