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Melvin Maddocks
(16 Jan 1924 - 2 Oct 2008)
columnist, essayist and critic who wrote for the Christian Science Monitor in various roles including arts editor and book review editor from 1946 to 1989. He also wrote for Time-Life publications, Sports Illustrated and the Smithsonian.
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Science Quotes by Melvin Maddocks (4 quotes)
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
— Melvin Maddocks
In 'How Journalists Regard Their Field', Christian Science Monitor (23 Jan 1985).
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough “facts” and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
— Melvin Maddocks
In 'How Journalists Regard Their Field', Christian Science Monitor (23 Jan 1985).
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
— Melvin Maddocks
In Christian Science Monitor (10 Apr 1985). Cited in Michael C. Thomsett and Linda Rose Thomsett, A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations: Maxims, Witticisms and Quips for Speeches and Presentations (2009), 13.
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
— Melvin Maddocks
Baseball The Difference between Night and Day Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr 85
See also:
- The Great Liners (The Seafarers), by Melvin Maddocks. - book suggestion.
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.
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