Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Professions : Author Born : July 8, 1929 Died : December 16, 2010 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority. Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart humility people past The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart believe hands past The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'. Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart progress expectations science Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
