Given Quote by Hugh Everett III

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

— Herman Melville

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

— John Burroughs

I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.

— Walter Schloss

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did…

— Douglas Adams

I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments.

— Larry Hurtado

“The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when there are…

— Walter Isaacson

“In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the…

— Walter Isaacson

“ Ronald Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.”

— Anders Hald

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

“In the last generation, this country produced one of the most eminent men of science in the whole world. His name was quite unknown…

— Albert Jay Nock

Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved on to…

— Paul Di Filippo

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson