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William S. Anglin
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mathematician and author whose books include Queen of mathematics: an introduction to number theory (1995), and others on the philosophy (1997) and the the history of mathematics (1994).
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Science Quotes by William S. Anglin (1 quote)
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
— William S. Anglin
'Mathematics and History', Mathematical Intelligencer (1992), 4, No. 4, 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) -- 
