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Herbert M. Moran
(26 Apr 1885 - 20 Nov 1945)
Australian who had a notable surgical career. He was interested in cancer research, and was ahead of his time considering the new use of gamma irradiation from metallic radium. He began his medical training at age 15 (1901) at Sydney University, and for a few years was also known as a rugby player. He was tour captain for the Wallabies tour (1908-09). He wrote three books.
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Science Quotes by Herbert M. Moran (1 quote)
In scientific investigations it is grievously wrong to pander to the public’s impatience for results, or to let them think that for discovery it is necessary only to set up a great manufactory and a system of mass production. If in treatment team work is effective, in research it is the individual who counts first and above all. No great thought has ever sprung from anything but a single mind, suddenly conceiving. Throughout the whole world there has been too violent a forcing of the growth of ideas; too feverish a rush to perform experiments and publish conclusions. A year of vacation for calm detachment with all the individual workers thinking it all over in a desert should be proclaimed.
— Herbert M. Moran
In Viewless Winds: Being the Recollections and Digressions of an Australian Surgeon (1939), 286.
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) -- 
