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Paul Dickson
(30 Jul 1939 - )
American writer. whose writings range from humorous to serious. His non-fiction books include diverse topics such as ice cream, Buckminster Fuller, or the Sputnik satellite and the subsequent space race.
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Science Quotes by Paul Dickson (2)
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
— Paul Dickson
In John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, The Book of Positive Quotations (2007), 669.
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. (Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named 'Bambi', 'Infant', 'Daisycutter', 'Grasshopper', and 'Agent Orange'. Nor is the trend new: from the past we have 'Mustard Gas'', 'Angel Chasers' (two cannonballs linked with a chain for added destruction) and 'The Peacemaker' to name but a few.)
— Paul Dickson
The Official Explanations (1980), 48.
