Simon Winchester Quotes (8 Quotes)

Cement was a relatively new material at that time,

The Professor and the Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary,

I would argue that William Smith turned a lot of things on their head with this map, which was a hugely important and profound development,

priests roved around the ruins, selecting at random those they believed guilty of heresy and thus to blame for annoying the Divine, who in turn had ordered up the disaster. The priests had them hanged on the spot.

This may sound silly, but I attach a little counter to the corner of my computer so I know I have to produce, say, 100,000 words by December. If I'm ahead one day, I take a break if I'm behind, I keep working.

A Crack in the Edge of the World America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906,

He buries his account of that fateful day some 250 pages into the book, choosing to explain how the quake occurred, why it happened and, most appropriately, warn people of its coming inevitability. In other words, this is a geology book - not a social history. If by writing a book like this I could increase awareness of geology and the reasons behind earthquakes and help preparedness, ... I'd be very happy.

No one knew in those days that parts of the world were moving,