Quote of the day
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Dumas Malone
Born: January 10, 1892
Died: December 27, 1986 (aged 94)
Bio: Dumas Malone was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Known for:
- Jefferson and His Time (1948)
- The Sage of Monticello (1981)
- Jefferson and the Rights of Man (1951)
- Thomas Jefferson: A Brief Biography