History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
I had lost faith in biography.
