Modes of research in genetics / by Raymond Pearl.

  • Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940.
Date:
1915
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Modes of research in genetics / by Raymond Pearl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    13/204 (page 1)
    MODES OF RESEARCH Ш GENETICS CHAPTER I A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF CmRENT MODES OF RESEARCH IN GENETICS» To any one interested in the philosophical bases and methods of science there is nothing which is regarded as sacrosanct merely because traditional. In theory, of course, such a condition of affairs obtains in all scientific work, and the implied state of mind is the ordinary one of all scientific workers. But while theoretically science is free of all trammels of tradition, practically the great bulk of scientific work is, in respect of its methods, most closely bound by tradition. Orthodoxy does not more firmly rule in the vestry than in the laboratory, in actual fact. Yet every one will agree that a real and permanent step in advance in science is only taken when some one looks at an old problem and at common facts from a naïve point of view, and applies to them unorthodox ^ The substance of this paper was read before a club in Boston on May 17, 1914. It has since been modified in certain minor par¬ ticulars. в 1