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Hudson Maxim
(3 Feb 1853 - 6 May 1927)
American inventor.
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Science Quotes by Hudson Maxim (2 quotes)
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood
and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and foolsnot menit ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.
— Hudson Maxim
Quoted in Henry Ford, The Case Against the Little White Slaver (1914), Vol. 1, 20.
The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.
— Hudson Maxim
Quoted in Henry Ford, The Case Against the Little White Slaver (1914), Vol. 1, 20.
See also:
- 3 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Maxim's birth.
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) -- 
