Charles C. Mann Quote
Stakman did not view science as a disinterested quest for knowledge. It was a tool—maybe the tool—for human betterment. Not all sciences were equally valuable, as he liked to explain. Botany, he said, is the most important of all sciences, and plant pathology is one of its most essential branches.
Charles C. Mann
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