Linnaeus's Last Stand?

[Geoff Read]

> It it is recognition we crave, we should get it through discovering or
> inventing something new, advancing knowledge through 'REAL science', not by
> pouring the old wine into new bottles and slapping a different labels on
> them (analogy not invented but rebottled shamelessly from Peter Stevens).

Hmm, when was he writing? He might have a few predecessors.
Analogies of wine, bottles, and ideas are fairly old hat. Julian Huxley for
example:

Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
                   New bottles for new wine, essays.
                   London, Chatto & Windus, 1957.


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Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>