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William Morris
(24 Mar 1834 - 3 Oct 1896)
English artist, designer and writer who designed tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows. He is now noted for his cultural activities, but in his lifetime he was better known as a poet.
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Science Quotes by William Morris (1 quote)
Science—we have loved her well, and followed her diligently, what will she do? I fear she is too much in the pay of the counting-houses, and the drill-serjent, that she is too busy, and will for the present do nothing. Yet there are matters which I should have thought easy for her; say, for example, teaching Manchester how to consume its town smoke, or Leeds how to get rid of its superfluous black dye without turning it into the river, which would be as much worth her attention as the production of the heaviest black silks, or the biggest of useless guns.
— William Morris
In The Lesser Arts (1878).
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) -- 
