Tony Rothman Quote

Principle of Literary Oversight: Textbooks may be straightforward and succinct, but the path of science is crooked and tortuous.


Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond, Introduction (p. xi), Ballentine Books. 1995


Principle of Literary Oversight: Textbooks may be straightforward and succinct, but the path of science is crooked and tortuous.

Principle of Literary Oversight: Textbooks may be straightforward and succinct, but the path of science is crooked and tortuous.

Principle of Literary Oversight: Textbooks may be straightforward and succinct, but the path of science is crooked and tortuous.

Principle of Literary Oversight: Textbooks may be straightforward and succinct, but the path of science is crooked and tortuous.