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Ray Stannard Baker
(17 Apr 1870 - 12 Jul 1946)
American journalist and author who was biographer of Woodrow Wilson. After joining the staff (1896) of McClure's Magazine, he gained a reputation, with his colleagues Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, as one of the leading 'muckrakers.' He later abandoned that style of hard-hitting, crusading journalism.
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Science Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker (1 quote)
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
Referring to the mercury lamp invention.
Referring to the mercury lamp invention.
— Ray Stannard Baker
Quoting Kelvin in McClure's Magazine (Jun 1903). In Albert Shaw (Ed.), The American Monthly Review of Reviews (1903), 27, 724.
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) -- 
