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Bill Thayer
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interpreter who is a simultaneous interpreter (French/English) specializing in mechanical engineering and the financial markets. His extensive personal web site includes LacusCurtius: a large section on Roman antiquity, and transcriptions of numerous works from antiquity.
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Science Quotes by Bill Thayer (1 quote)
Why is it that the self-aggrandizements of Cicero, the lecheries and whining of Ovid and the blatherings of that debauched old goose Seneca made it onto the Net before the works that give us solid technical information about what Rome was really good at, viz. the construction of her great buildings and works of engineering?
— Bill Thayer
From headnotes written by Bill Thayer to his online transcription of Vitruvius: On Architecture.
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) -- 
