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Alan L. Mackay
(6 Sep 1926 - )
English crystallographer.
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Science Quotes by Alan L. Mackay (3 quotes)
How can we have any new ideas or fresh outlooks when 90 per cent of the scientists who have ever lived have still not died?
— Alan L. Mackay
In Scientific World, 1969.
Inasmuch as science represents one way of dealing with the world, it does tend to separate its practitioners from the rest. Being a scientist resembles membership of a religious order and a scientist usually finds that he has more in common with a colleague on the other side of the world than with his next-door neighbor.
— Alan L. Mackay
In A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991).
Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
— Alan L. Mackay
In lecture at Birkbeck College, University of London, quoted in Alan L. MacKay, A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991), 160.
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) -- 
