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Verlyn Klinkenborg
(1952 - )
American author whose books Making Hay (1986) and The Rural Life record life on American farms, based on his own experience working on farms. One reviewer described the first book as “a complex story of the interaction of plants, people, animals, and machines.” He writes for, and is on the editorial board, of The New York Times.
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Science Quotes by Verlyn Klinkenborg (1 quote)
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem (“It's simple; it’s broke.”) to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
In Making Hay (2003), 33-34.
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) -- 
