National Weather Service Quotes (2 quotes)
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
In Letter to his father, quoted in W. J. Humphries, 'Cleveland Abbe', part of National Academy of Science: Biographical Memoirs: Vol. VIII (1919), 478. Humphries comments “Professor Abbe’s justifiable enthusiasm over his success in foretelling the coming of storms may be inferred from [this] letter.” The larger context is the goal of establishing a national weather forecasting service with a wide network of reporting stations collecting weather data.
The seer of the past was the man of mysteries. The veil within which none but the high-priest must enter, … whose traditions are the cement in which the stones of all these temples rising around us are laid. The seer of to-day is the man of explorations and explanations. Moses is
busy with his microscope, and Daniel prophesies from the meteorological headquarters at Washington.
From 'Professor Jeffries Wyman: A Memorial Outline', The Atlantic Monthly (Nov 1874), 622.
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) -- 
