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Tuzo Wilson
(24 Oct 1908 - 15 Apr 1993)
Canadian geologist and geophysicist.
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Science Quotes by Tuzo Wilson (3 quotes)
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
— Tuzo Wilson
As quoted G.D. Garland in obituary 'John Tuzo Wilson', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Nov 1995), 552.
I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.
[About pioneering with his new ideas.]
[About pioneering with his new ideas.]
— Tuzo Wilson
As quoted by Neil Shubin in The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body (2013), 113
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
— Tuzo Wilson
From J. Tuzo Wilson, 'Early Days in University Geophysics', Ann. Rev. Earth Planet Sci. (1982), 10, 4.
See also:
- 24 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Wilson'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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