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Kenneth Mees
(26 May 1882 - 15 Aug 1960)
English scientist who researched the photographic process at London University (D.Sc. 1906) then joined the Kodak company in 1912 and developed photographic plates for special purposes. He wrote The Theory of the Photographic Process (1942).
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Science Quotes by Kenneth Mees (1 quote)
The best person to decide what research shall be done is the man who is doing the research. The next best is the head of the department. After that you leave the field of best persons and meet increasingly worse groups. The first of these is the research director, who is probably wrong more than half the time. Then comes a committee which is wrong most of the time. Finally there is a committee of company vice-presidents, which is wrong all the time.
— Kenneth Mees
1935, in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1961.
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) -- 
