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Sir John Richardson,
(5 Nov 1787 - 5 Jun 1865)
Scottish naval surgeon and naturalist.
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Science Quotes by Sir John Richardson, (1 quote)
I was appalled to find that the first referee recommended that part A be omitted and B condensed while the second referee recommended that B should be omitted and A condensed! Perceiving that even referees were not infallible, I decided to persist, and after a lot of bother to myself and to other referees I got both parts published.
— Sir John Richardson,
On trying to get a paper published. As quoted in Oliver M. Ashford, Prophet–Or Professor?, The Life and Work of Lewis Fry Richardson (1985), 23. Eventually the paper was published as 'The approximate arithmetical solutions by finite differences of physical problems involving differential equation, with an application to the stresses in a masonry dam', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Series A (1911), 210, 307-357.
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- 5 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Richardson'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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