{"id":579,"date":"2003-05-24T23:39:02","date_gmt":"2003-05-24T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/05\/24\/a_quote_by_darwin.html"},"modified":"2003-05-24T23:39:02","modified_gmt":"2003-05-24T23:39:02","slug":"a_quote_by_darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/05\/24\/a_quote_by_darwin.html","title":{"rendered":"a quote by darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, i read a quote by Darwin that really made me think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let theory guide your observations, but till your reputation is well established, be sparing in publishing theory.  It makes persons doubt your observations.&#8221;  (<u>The Moral Animal<\/u> p. 299)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to wonder how relevant such a thought is today &#8211; are us youngin researchers forbidden from hypothesizing new theories?  It&#8217;s funny&#8230; i really think that the notion of research has turned topsy-turvy in my lifetime and i still don&#8217;t know how to properly negotiate the intellectual community in a subtle, yet effective manner.  Perhaps one day i will learn some tact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, i read a quote by Darwin that really made me think: &#8220;Let theory guide your observations, but till your reputation is well established, be sparing in publishing theory. It makes persons doubt your observations.&#8221; (The Moral Animal p. 299) I have to wonder how relevant such a thought is today &#8211; are us youngin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}