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Charles Thomas Jackson
(21 Jun 1805 - 28 Aug 1880)
American physician, chemist, geologist and mineralogist.
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Science Quotes by Charles Thomas Jackson (1 quote)
Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.
— Charles Thomas Jackson
Honour in Science (1984), 14.
See also:
- 21 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Jackson's birth.
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) -- 
