Comments on: False Pearls before Real Swine https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/20/false-pearls-before-real-swine-1/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/20/false-pearls-before-real-swine-1/#comment-518503 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:45:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/20/false-pearls-before-real-swine-1/#comment-518503 There is enough overlap … could have been either way.

]]> By: Jonathan https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/20/false-pearls-before-real-swine-1/#comment-518502 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:51:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/20/false-pearls-before-real-swine-1/#comment-518502 The false pearls before genuine swine story I heard many years ago was that James Bryant Conant, a chemist who became president of Harvard, one day stormed back from a class of graduate students saying loudly that he had just been throwing false pearls before genuine swine.

I wonder which version of the origins of this story, if any, is the true one.

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