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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by itcrowd on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:21PM (#21390428)
The quote is part of a speech given by J.J. Thomson in 1916. The speech is partially reproduced (including your part) in the book "The life of Sir J.J. Thomson, O. M. : sometime master of Trinity College Cambridge" by Lord Rayleigh (1942). The original book is on the Internet Archive [1]. The speech is given at pages 198-200 and your quote appears approximately halfway in the quoted part of the speech [see 2].

[1] Full biography: https://archive.org/details/b29932208

[2] Screenshot of relevant quote: https://imgur.com/a/qicgorD

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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:25PM (#21390482)
Thank you so much for finding this. I am so happy to know that this is a real quote and not a mis-attribution to a famous person.

"Not all famous quotes are by famous people"

- Abraham Lincoln

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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by dennisgorelik on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:09PM (#21402771)
> "Not all famous quotes are by famous people"

Googling this quote points back to RcouF1uZ4gsC as an original author.

https://www.google.com/search?q="Not+all+famous+quotes+are+b...

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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by mellosouls on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:15PM (#21394077)
JJ Thompson was one of the great scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and certainly famous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson

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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:52PM (#21394268)
Completely agree about JJ Thomson. Just happy to hear it was he who said it and not a that it was a quote by someone else falsely attributed to JJ Thomson because he is famous.
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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by mellosouls on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:56PM (#21394292)
Ah, I see - thanks for the clarification.
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Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science by stjohnswarts on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:12PM (#21391465)
"Those who would give up essential control, to purchase a little temporary memory safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" --Ben Franklin
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