Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Robert N. Proctor
Born: June 25, 1954 (age 70)
Bio: Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry.
Known for:
- Racial hygiene (1988)
- Deaf People in Hitler's Europe (2002)
- The Nazi war on cancer (1997)