Quotes by : Simon Winchester

The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations....

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It....

No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the....

And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the....