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Walter Lippmann
(23 Sep 1889 - 14 Dec 1974)
American author and journalist who was respected world-traveling political columnist. He co-founded The New Republic (1914), wrote editorials for World (1921–29). His began his widely syndicated column, 'Today and Tomorrow' at the New York Herald Tribune (8 Sep 1931). He won two Pulitzer Prizes (1958, 1962).
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Science Quotes by Walter Lippmann (2 quotes)
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
— Walter Lippmann
In A Preface to Morals (1929, 1982), 127.
There is at least as much mystery in science for the modern man as there ever was in religion; in a sense there is more mystery, for the logic of science is still altogether beyond his understanding, whereas the logic of revelation is the logic of his own feelings.
— Walter Lippmann
In A Preface to Morals (1929, 1982), 121.
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) -- 
