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Lydia Howard Sigourney
(1 Sep 1791 - 10 Jun 1865)
American author and poet who was a school mistress (1811-13), and wrote her first book in 1815, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse. After marrying in 1819, she began writing extensively to supplement the family income, contributing verse and miscellaneous articles to numerous periodicals. Her popularity grew, and she eventually published more than sixty volumes of poems and sentimental prose.
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Science Quotes by Lydia Howard Sigourney (1 quote)
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
— Lydia Howard Sigourney
Tryon Edwards and William Buell Sprague, The World’s Laconics: or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853), 153.
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) -- 
