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Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
Hans Selye
From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist

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Some time ago, a questionnaire on “Intellectual Immoralities” was circulated by a well-known institution. “Intellectual Immorality No. 4” read: “Generalizing beyond one’s data.” [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question No. 4 “Not generalizing beyond one’s data.”
Hans Selye
From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist

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Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
Hans Selye
From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist

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(Added by Rodney Rawlings on 8/26/2004, 3:21pm)
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