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John Stevens Cabot Abbott
(19 Sep 1805 - 17 Jun 1877)
American historian and author who wrote books on Christian ethics and various characters from history as well as History of the Civil War (1863-1866).
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Science Quotes by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1 quote)
When he had a few moments for diversion, he [Napoleon] not unfrequently employed them over a book of logarithms, in which he always found recreation.
— John Stevens Cabot Abbott
In Napoleon Bonaparte (1904), Vol. 1, chap. 10.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
