Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?
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"Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?" — William Lipscomb #sciencediscovery
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Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger? — William Lipscomb
About William Lipscomb
William Lipscomb was a Scientist from United States (1919–2011).
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This quote is attributed to William Lipscomb, a Scientist from United States.
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William Lipscomb lived from 1919 – 2011.
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