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Sir William Jackson Pope
(31 Oct 1870 - 17 Oct 1939)
English chemist.
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Science Quotes by Sir William Jackson Pope (1 quote)
Chemists must unite in order to force upon the reluctant world the power of their discoveries.
— Sir William Jackson Pope
Shortly after World War I. Quoted, as a memory of Pope, in Sir William Jackson Pope Memorial Lecture by Leslie H. Lampitt, 'Sir William Jackson Pope: His Influence on Scientific Organisation' Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (31 Jan 1947), 95, No. 4736, 174. Webmaster notes that this is given as a memory, and the wording therefore may not be verbatim.
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- 31 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Pope'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.
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