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Elvin Charles Stakman
(17 May 1885 - 22 Jan 1979)
American plant pathologist who pioneered methods to identify and combat diseases of important crops. He worked to improve crop production worldwide.
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Science Quotes by Elvin Charles Stakman (2 quotes)
Find out all you have to buck, and then breed 'em tough.
[About breeding hardier strains of disease-resistant wheat.]
[About breeding hardier strains of disease-resistant wheat.]
— Elvin Charles Stakman
As quoted in 'Milestones', Time magazine (5 Feb 1979), 113.
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
— Elvin Charles Stakman
To the 116th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York City (26-31 Dec 1949), as quoted in Life magazine (9 Jan 1950), 28, No. 2, 17.
See also:
- 17 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Stakman'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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