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I have not as yet mentioned a circumstance which influenced my whole career more than any other. This was my friendship with Professor Henslow. Before coming up to Cambridge, I had heard of him from my brother as a man who knew every branch of science, and I was accordingly prepared to reverence him. He kept open house once every week when all unde
... See moreCharles Darwin • The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Dr. Jonathan Southard, Dr. Ying Long, Dr. Andrew Kolbert, Dr. Shri Thanedar, and I coauthored a paper titled “Presence of L-canavanine in Hedysarum alpinum seeds and its potential role in the death of Chris McCandless,” which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine in October 2014.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Agassiz produced a stream of articles for Atlantic Monthly and carried the fight to the lecture circuit, his popularity soaring to new heights. The articles, published as a book, Methods of Study in Natural History, went through nineteen editions. To know that Agassiz of Harvard decried the theories of Charles Darwin, that he, of all learned men, m
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
Hecataeus had traced his descent and claimed that his sixteenth forefather was a god, but the priests traced a line of descent by counting the statues, and these were three hundred and forty-five.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions
David McCullough • Brave Companions
arguments for the superiority of some over others fail both because we are descended from the same father (Adam) and because we were created by the same Father (God).
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.