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John Grier Hibben
(22 Feb 1861 - 16 May 1933)
American philosopher, educator and administrator.
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Science Quotes by John Grier Hibben (1 quote)
A mind exclusively bent upon the idea of utility necessarily narrows the range of the imagination. For it is the imagination which pictures to the inner eye of the investigator the indefinitely extending sphere of the possible,—that region of hypothesis and explanation, of underlying cause and controlling law. The area of suggestion and experiment is thus pushed beyond the actual field of vision.
— John Grier Hibben
In 'The Paradox of Research', The North American Review (Sep 1908), 188, No. 634, 425.
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) -- 
