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Jonathan Weiner
(26 Nov 1953 - )
American writer who majored in English, and began his career editing at the magazine The Sciences, from which he found he enjoyed science writing. He turned to producing books, beginning with Planet Earth the companion volume to a PBS television series. His book “The Beak of the Finch” won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Science Quotes by Jonathan Weiner (1 quote)
Specialization has gotten out of hand. There are more branches in the tree of knowledge than there are in the tree of life. A petrologist studies rocks; a pedologist studies soils. The first one sieves the soil and throws away the rocks. The second one picks up the rocks and brushes off the soil. Out in the field, they bump into each other only like Laurel and Hardy, by accident, when they are both backing up.
— Jonathan Weiner
In The Next One Hundred Years (1990).
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) -- 
