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Washington Irving
(3 Apr 1783 - 28 Nov 1859)
American historian, short-story writer and biographer who is best-known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but this was a small part of his extensive writings.
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Science Quotes by Washington Irving (1 quote)
Finding the world would not accommodate to his theory, he wisely determined to accommodate the theory to the world.
— Washington Irving
Under the pseudonym of Diedrich Knickerbocker, in A History of New York (1809). Collected in The Works of Washington Irving (1840), Vol. 1, 24.
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) -- 
