Dennis Flanagan Quotes

United States, Editor
July 22, 1919 – January, 14, 2005.

Dennis Flanagan was the founding editor of the modern Scientific American magazine. In 1947, Flanagan, Donald H. Miller, Jr. and Gerard Piel, under the leadership of Piel, acquired and reorganized the then 102-year-old Scientific American.

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism.

Dennis Flanagan
- Help
- Energy
- Single

We liked the title for itself, and although the magazine was then in sad shape, it had seen great days and would give us a ready-made history.

Dennis Flanagan
- Great
- History
- Sad