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Pearl S. Buck
(26 Jun 1892 - 6 Mar 1973)
American writer and teacher whose is well-known for her novel The Good Earth which became a best-selling fiction book and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
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Science Quotes by Pearl S. Buck (1 quote)
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. “And relationships,” he had told her, “contained the essential meaning of life.”
— Pearl S. Buck
In The Goddess Abides, (1972), 20.
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) -- 
