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Merle Antony Tuve
(27 Jun 1901 - 20 May 1982)
American physicist and geophysicist.
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Science Quotes by Merle Antony Tuve (1 quote)
We have corrupted the term research to mean study and experiment and development toward selected objectives, and we have even espoused secret and classified projects. This was not the old meaning of university research. We need a new term, or the revival of a still older one, to refer to the dedicated activities of the scholar, the intensive study of special aspects of a subject for its own sake, motivated by the love of knowledge and truth.
— Merle Antony Tuve
In 'Technology and National Research Policy', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Oct 1953), 292.
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- 27 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Tuve'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) -- 
