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Philip Hamburger
(2 Jul 1914 - 23 Apr 2004)
writer who wroter for The New Yorker magazine for 65 years. His essays covered wide variety of subjects, including profiles of famous people, music critic, national and international politics. Many of his articles were collected and reprinted in book form.
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Science Quotes by Philip Hamburger (1 quote)
[Oppenheimer is] tense, dedicated, deeper than deep, somewhat haunted, uncertain, calm, confident, and full, full, full of knowledge, not only of particles and things but of men and motives, and of the basic humanity that may be the only savior we have in this strange world he and his colleagues have discovered.
— Philip Hamburger
In Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control by Fred W. Friendly (1967).
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) -- 
