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Annie Dillard
(30 Apr 1945 - )
American author who is known for her narrative non-fiction, and won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. She mixes philosophical, theological, and scientific themes in her writings.
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Science Quotes by Annie Dillard (1 quote)
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones—maybe only the stones—understood.
— Annie Dillard
In An American Childhood (1987), 139.
See also:
- Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters, by Annie Dillard. - 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) -- 
