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Thomas Hager
(18 Apr 1953 - )
American science historian, writer and editor who authors popular science books, including The Alchemy of Air (2009) and The Demon Under the Microscope (2007).
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Science Quotes by Thomas Hager (1 quote)
By the early 1960s Pauling had earned a reputation for being audacious, intuitive, charming, irreverent, self-promoting, self-reliant, self-involved to the point of arrogance and correct about almost everything.
— Thomas Hager
In Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling (1995), 13.
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) -- 
