Samuel Warren Carey Professions : GeologistBorn : November 1, 1911Died : March 20, 2002 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Samuel Warren Carey Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness. Samuel Warren Carey dogmawallthinking The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs. Samuel Warren Carey errorsbelieffundamentals Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your examiners. Your statistics, or your observations, or your literature study, or your something else will be patently deficient. Do not doubt that in our enlightened age the really important advances are and will be rejected more often than acclaimed. Nor should we doubt that in our own professional lifetime we too will repudiate with like pontifical finality the most significant insight ever to reach our desk. Samuel Warren Carey herodiscoveryscience Similar Authors Archibald Geikie geologist Alfred Harker geologist Bernhard von Cotta geologist Douglas Mawson geologist Ian Plimer geologist Hugh Miller geologistAll Authors
