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Edwin Emery Slosson
(7 Jun 1865 - 15 Oct 1929)
American biologist and science writer whose writings were reaching millions of readers through the publications of Science Service. In his time, he was considered by many to be the foremost popularizer of scientific thought in America.
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Science Quotes by Edwin Emery Slosson (2 quotes)
If you have a lot of loose papers to carry, or sticks of kindling-wood, you will do it more easily if they are tied together in a single bundle. That is what the scientist is always doing, tying up fugitive facts into compact and portable packages.
— Edwin Emery Slosson
In Chats on Science (1924), 4.
Science means simplification. It substitutes a single rule for a million miscellaneous observations.
— Edwin Emery Slosson
In Chats on Science (1924), 4.
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) -- 
