The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: a Selection of Scientific Quotations

by Alan L. Mackay

A personal selection of over 1200 scientific quotations including graffiti, lines of song and proverbs together with the more recognised forms of quotation not only from scientists but from artists, poets, philosophers, theologians, politicians and other miscellaneous mortals.

Genres: Science, Reference

441 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Alan Lindsay Mackay was a British crystallographer.

Reviews

[Edmund Chattoe-Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

There isn't a lot to say about "list" books like this except that this one is physically nicely produced and carefully edited and, as a reader with an interest in this area, it has quite a lot of "meat" (quotations I wanted to copy out into may "day book".) Well worth a look and not just for those with a hard core interest in the topic.

[Peter Macinnis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently commended this book to an old mate, a science journalist. "I have never," he replied, "given a talk since it came out, without first consulting it."

"Me too," I said.

No passably garrulous communicator or explicator of science should be without it.