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Izaak Walton
(9 Aug 1593 - 15 Dec 1683)
English writer and biographer who is famous for his book, The Compleat Angler (1653), but also wrote several biographies, including those of John Donne and George Herbert.
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Science Quotes by Izaak Walton (3 quotes)
And an ingenious Spaniard says, that “rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.”
— Izaak Walton
In Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, The Complete Angler (1653, 1859), 31.
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
— Izaak Walton
In The Complete Angler (1653, 1915), 7.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.
— Izaak Walton
In Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, 'Walton to the Reader', The Complete Angler (1653, 1824), Vol. 1, lxv.
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) -- 
