Verbose Quotes (2 quotes)
I’m much better. I just say what it is, who it is, how it is and get off there.
On how to she curbed her previously rather verbose writing style. As quoted in 'Words of the Week',Jet (3 Jan 1980), 57, No. 16, 32.
It is to Borda and to Coulomb that one owes the renaissance of true physics in France, not a verbose and hypothetical physics, but that ingenious and exact physics which observes and compares all with rigor.
As quoted in C. Stewart Gillmor, Coulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-Century France (2017), 230.
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) -- 
