Sunday, August 11, 2024

Sinnott Quote

I previously mentioned that I came across the work of Edmund Sinnott because of a quotation from him used by JH Woodger in his Biology and Language. Here is that quotation and its source in full:

Let us never grow so pedantic that we shall frown on any brother who occasionally goes off the reservation of biological orthodoxy to refresh himself in other fields. He may bring back from his excursion a treasure which those who stay at home can never find.


Edmund W. Sinnott
The Cell and the Problem of Organization
Science
20 Jan 1939
Vol 89, Issue 2299
pp. 41-46