Hans Selye Quotes - Page 2

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• Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

  Hans Selye

  Running, Errors, Enjoy

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

  Hans Selye

  Elements, Research, Chance

  Hans Selye (1979). “The Stress of My Life: A Scientist's Memoirs”, New York ; Toronto ; Van Nostrand Reinhold

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• The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

  Hans Selye

  Car, Racing, Drivers

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

  Hans Selye

  Miscarriage, Successful, Pms

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• The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Scientist, Faculty

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• I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'

  Hans Selye

  Fall, Science, Discovery

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• Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

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  Science, Data, Intellectual

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• Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

  Hans Selye

  Faith, Science, Purpose

  Hans Selye (1964). “From dream to discovery: on being a scientist”

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