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SENSE, experience, humility, and imagination may teach one the need of advice: but some understanding of the subject is required to know whom to ask for advice and how to ask him; and still more to select advice, apply it, and act on it. In scientific matters this receptiveness of the recipient is an essential condition, otherwise the adviser is merely pouring water upon a flat plate; it bounces off, yet the plate shines and glories in its wetness.
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O'GORMAN, M. Science and Government Administration. Nature 111, 521–523 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111521a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111521a0