“Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 236, concerning cranks)
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James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
Source: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 11, “Genetic Fingerprinting: DNA’s Day in Court” (p. 300)
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) French economist; 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience (1997), p. 591
Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue
Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist
Written in the 1920s, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 8, by William V. Holtz (1993).
“To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.”
Donna VanLiere (1966) American writer
Source: The Christmas Note
