Lynn White
Lynn White
Lynn Townsend White Jr.was a professor of medieval history at Princeton from 1933 to 1937, and at Stanford from 1937 to 1943. He was president of Mills College, Oakland, from 1943 to 1958 and a professor at University of California, Los Angeles from 1958 until 1987. Lynn White helped to found The Society of History and Technologyand was president from 1960 to 1962. He won the Pfizer Award for "Medieval Technology and Social Change" from the History of Science Societyand...
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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
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It's rare he has good, good days any more. It's more and more often he has rough days, so to speak. We don't call them bad days; they're good days because he's alive.