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Tom Robbins
(22 Jul 1932 - )
American novelist whose first novel was Another Roadside Attraction (1971), followed by seven others, short stories, essays and some non-fiction.
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Science Quotes by Tom Robbins (3 quotes)
Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.
— Tom Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction (1990), 127.
It’s never too late for a happy childhood.
— Tom Robbins
In Still Life with Woodpecker (1980).
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
— Tom Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction (1990), 240.
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) -- 
