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Arthur Harry Church
(1865 - 1937)
English illustrator whose revolutionary drawings of flowers are considered some of the finest botanical illustrations of the twentieth century. Church had a microtechnique that provided great clarity in his cross-sections and diagrams of flower structure.
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Science Quotes by Arthur Harry Church (1 quote)
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.
— Arthur Harry Church
(1919). As quoted in E.J.H. Corner, The Life of Plants (1964).
See also:
- Arthur Harry Church: The Anatomy of flowers, by David Mabberley. - book suggestion.
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) -- 
