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William Whiteman Carlton Topley
(19 Jan 1886 - 21 Jan 1944)
English bacteriologist.
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Science Quotes by William Whiteman Carlton Topley (1 quote)
Committees are dangerous things that need most careful watching. I believe that a research committee can do one useful thing and one only. It can find the workers best fitted to attack a particular problem, bring them together, give them the facilities they need, and leave them to get on with the work. It can review progress from time to time, and make adjustments; but if it tries to do more, it will do harm.
— William Whiteman Carlton Topley
Attributed without citation in W.I.B. Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation (1951), 118.
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- 19 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Topley'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.
(1987) -- 
