On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:06:43 -0800, Miguel Roig wrote:
Thanks for your response, Mike. What you have uncovered
surely conveys the same thought. However, I could have
sworn that I had heard/read a more succinct version not
unlike the one I posted with my request. I wanted to use
it in the context of a comment I made in response to this
APS Observer article,
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2014/january-14/seeing-in-the-dark-no-superhero-powers-necessary.html
,
but at the time I could not locate the exact quote, or its author
who my colleague thought might have been William James.
The closest I have come to the quote in James' is the following:
http://books.google.com/books?id=JdOfX6i0w5gC&pg=PT748&lpg=PT748&dq=%22The+entire+accumulated+wealth+of+mankind%22+James&source=bl&ots=k57Zh7bysi&sig=cN7vvqKXN1KvvmBEzOp_NZugtEY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zo7RUt69KvOssQS_x4HIDA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22The%20entire%20accumulated%20wealth%20of%20mankind%22%20James&f=false
But James' statement is only vaguely similar:
|"The entire accumulated wealth of mankind -- language, arts,
institutions,
|and sciences -- is passed from one generation to another by what
Baldwin
| has called social heredity, each generation simply imitating the
last."
This is post #3 for me today, so if I find anything y'all have to wait
until tomorrow. ;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 04:37:58 -0800, Miguel Roig wrote:
[snip]
BTW, while on the subject of quotes. Can anyone track down
the actual quote (and its author) that goes something like this:
"The function of each generation of researchers is to rediscover
what the previous generation did".
The quote above is odd in that components do not appear in
any sources via Google search, both web and books (e.g.,
"function of each generation"). It's clear that this refers to science
or other research endeavor and it has a very different sense
than the old saying of researchers standing on the "shoulders
of giants" (attributed to Newton but appears to be original
with Bernard of Chartres; see:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton )
However, I have come across a statement that is close in meaning
to the above quote but it does not have an attribution; see:
http://jdeveland.com/?p=490
|There is no doubt that each generation needs to rediscover
|territory pioneered by previous generations, and usually to
|drape it in new and distinctive clothing. But it does seem a
|shame that these rediscoveries can only establish their value
|by claiming to have found something new and unique.
This statement may be based on comments from another source
but that is another paper chase.
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