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Nathaniel Hawthorne
(4 Jul 1804 - 19 May 1864)
American author , whose books and short stories included horror, ghost and gothic genres. With Edgar Allan Poe, he is regarded as one of the two founding fathers of modern American imaginative fiction.
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Science Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1 quote)
Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
In The House of the Seven Gables (1851), 203.
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) -- 
