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EDITORIAL—CONTEMPO '79
JAMA. 1979;241(13):1365-1369. doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290390043030

Surgery

  1. Arthur E. Baue, MD
  1. New Haven, Conn
  2. From the Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Abstract

The preparatory accumulation of minor discoveries and of accurately observed details... is, in scientific pursuits, almost as important for the mobilization of great forward drives as the periodic correlation of these disconnected observations into principles and laws by the vision of genius.

Hans Zinsser1

Footnotes

  • Member, editorial board, The Journal.

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