The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary me…

- William Wickenden

Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does…

- William Wickenden

Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or …

- William Wickenden

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in ord…

- William Wickenden

It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some…

- William Wickenden