 | John E Brignell
emeritus professor of industrial instrumentation at the University of Southampton, and editor of Number Watch
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority
I should teach the world the following statement, by the nineteenth-century British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley: 'The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.' John Brignell is author of The Epidemiologists: Have They Got Scares for You! (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA)), and Sorry, Wrong Number!: The Abuse of Measurement (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA)).
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