Comment on E.O. Wilson on Becoming a Great ScientistComments−hprotagonist5yRamon y Cajal's "advice to a young investigator" is still quite good as well: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advice-young-investigator−jhbadger5yAlthough he suggests that the best thing a female scientist can do is be a good helper to her husband! He was a man of his times, to be sure.−vixen995yYes he was. 'Man of his times' is a good phrase. I wonder how the behaviour of moralizers of today who castigate those in the past, often with little or no appreciation of the mores of their period, will be viewed in a couple of hundred years time.
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Ramon y Cajal's "advice to a young investigator" is still quite good as well: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advice-young-investigator
Although he suggests that the best thing a female scientist can do is be a good helper to her husband! He was a man of his times, to be sure.
Yes he was. 'Man of his times' is a good phrase. I wonder how the behaviour of moralizers of today who castigate those in the past, often with little or no appreciation of the mores of their period, will be viewed in a couple of hundred years time.