Fishwife Quotes (1 quote)
In order to give my talk some local color, I wanted to imitate Schopenhauer’s style in my very title. His style distinguishes itself especially by the mode of expression associated in the past with fishwives but which today would be called “parliamentary.”
From Lecture (21 Jan 1905) given to Vienna Philosophical Society, 'On a Thesis of Schopenhauer’s', as translated in John Blackmore (ed.), Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906 (1995), 143.
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) -- 
