Handmaiden Quotes (2 quotes)
No collateral science had profited so much by palæontology as that which teaches the structure and mode of formation of the earth’s crust, with the relative position, time, and order of formation of its constituent stratified and unstratified parts. Geology has left her old hand-maiden mineralogy to rest almost wholly on the broad shoulders of her young and vigorous offspring, the science of organic remains.
In article 'Palæontology' contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica (8th ed., 1859), Vol. 17, 91.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
Title of one of his books (1937) on mathematics for the lay reader. Compare “Science the Handmaid of Religion” as the title of an address by J.J. Coxhead in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, to the Lay Helpers’ Association in 1877, which began with this “statement has often been made.”
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) -- 
