laboriosity

Updated: June 3, 2025

Excellent workers in science; tenacious and short-sighted academicians, each wrapped in his specialty! Benedictines of the laboratory who experimented painstakingly and occasionally hit upon something, in spite of enormous blunders given out as truths, because they were their own . . . that was all! And side by side with such patient laboriosity, really worthy of respect what charlatanism!

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse