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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
(4 Oct 1841 - 23 Mar 1924)
American physicist and meteorologist.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1 quote)
More than ever before in the history of science and invention, it is safe now to say what is possible and what is impossible. No one would claim for a moment that during the next five hundred years the accumulated stock of knowledge of geography will increase as it has during the last five hundred In the same way it may safely be affirmed that in electricity the past hundred years is not likely to be duplicated in the next, at least as to great, original, and far-reaching discoveries, or novel and almost revolutionary applications.
— Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
In A Century of Electricity (1890), 223.
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- 4 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Mendenhall'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) -- 
