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William Ewart Gladstone
(29 Dec 1809 - 19 May 1898)
British Prime Minister.
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Science Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone (1 quote)
It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action … that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.
— William Ewart Gladstone
In 'Dawn and the Creation of Worship', The Nineteenth Century, 1885, 18, 706.
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) -- 
