Re: [ccp4bb]: quote 'crystallisation is art, crystallography is science'

[Peter Zwart <Zwart@embl-hamburg.de>]

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Please remind Stiglers law of eponymy (+/-1980),

" No law, Theorem or discovery is named after its originator "

This is summerised by A.N Whitehead (b.1861 - d.1947), who remarked

" Everything of importance has been said before, by someone who did not 
discover it "

I wish you good luck

Peter




mario maffie wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> not really related to ccp4, but anyway:
> For my thesis defence i need to know who first came up with the saying
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> -'crystallisation is art, crystallography is science'-
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> I know it is quote often used, but does anybody know who said this ?
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> Thanks in advance
> Mario
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