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Strickland W. Gillilan
(21 Sep 1869 - 25 Apr 1954)
American poet, humorist and journalist whose popular poems include 'The Reading Mother' and 'Finnigan to Flannigan'. He began newspaper work on The Jackson Herald (1887) then at several others before joining the staff of the Baltimore American (1902-05). After this, he became a free-lance writer. By 1908, his poems were being published in Saturday Evening Post. He also wrote short stories.
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Science Quotes by Strickland W. Gillilan (1 quote)
The Humorless Person: I have a friend who has about as much sense of humor as the wooden Indian of commerce. Some time ago he made a trip through the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. … He did his sight-seeing very thoroughly. He didn’t miss a single ramification in that great crack in the face of Mother Nature. … I asked him what he thought of the Mammoth Cave. “Well,” said he, “taking it as a hole, it is all right.”
— Strickland W. Gillilan
In A Sample Case of Humor (1919), 15.
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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) -- 
