“5414. Want of Care does us more Damage than want of Knowledge.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.”
As quoted in Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '87 (1988) edited by F. J. Duarte, p. 1165
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