It can be difficult to even find out who exactly was involved in a discovery, of what their precise roles were

Such massive expansion comes with its problems: in retrospect, it can be difficult to even find out who exactly was involved in a discovery, of what their precise roles were. Very few first-hand records of the scanning girls exist. Graduate students who have left the field don't get detailed biographies. The omega minus discovery paper has thirty-three authors and this didn't any of the accelerator designers, engineers, scanners or theorists - not even Gell-Mann. As a result, today we usually only hear the stories of the few theoretical physicists rather than the teams of experimentalists, engineers and others to actually make discoveries like resonance particles and the omega minus happen.

S. Sheehy, The matter of everything (2022), 175

We even have a different name when we teach the physics that emerged after the turn of the twentieth century

We even have a different name when we teach the physics that emerged after the turn of the twentieth century. We call it modern physics as opposed to classical physics, as if everything that came before the theories of this era was just a little ordinary.

S. Sheehy, The matter of everything (2022), 47

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the Reverend Thomas Bayes

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the Reverend Thomas Bayes,
He is stamping out the frequentists and their incoherent ways,
He has raised his mighty army at the Hotel Las Fuenties,
His troops are marching on.

Glory, Glory, Probability
Glory, Glory, Subjectivity
Glory, Glory, on to infinity!
His troops are marching on.

From the Bayesian Songbook, cited in T. Chivers, Everything is predictable (2024), 80

The Huxleys are remembered as a scientific dynasty, but they are at least as significant as a literary family.

The Huxleys are remembered as a scientific dynasty, but they are at least as significant as a literary family. They wrote in multiple genres and for different audiences, in private and public. That the Arnolds grafted onto the Huxleys in the middle generation, meant that this became a conjoined highly regarded literary figures – Matthew Arnold, Aldous Huxley, Mary Augusta Ward – and of essayists, memoirists and science writers - Thomas Henry, Leonard and Julian. More privately, though still intermittently in published form, all of the Huxleys were poets. This was a family of professional wordsmiths.

A. Bashford, An intimate history of evolution (2022), 30

Mary still suggested popery for most English people

Mary still suggested popery for most English people. Indeed, one explanation for the failure to develop a stronger Marian devotional tradition in Anglicanism may be that those who had the strongest feelings about Mary became Catholic.

G. Woodman, 'The blessed Virgin Mary in Seventeenth Century Anglican Theology: a study in doctrine and devotion', Sobornost 46:1 (2024), 20