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Barbara Tuchman
(30 Jan 1912 - 6 Feb 1989)
American historian and author who wrote about World War I in The Guns of August (1962) for which she won a Putlizer Prize, and a second one for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (1971).
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Science Quotes by Barbara Tuchman (1 quote)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, “lighthouses,” (as a poet said), “erected in the sea of time.”
— Barbara Tuchman
In Authors League Bulletin (1979). As city in Charles Francis (ed.), Wisdom Well Said (2009), 48.
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) -- 
