Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Caryl Parker Haskins

Scientist, Author, Inventor, Philanthropist, Governmental Adviser and Pioneering Entomologist in the study of Ant Biology

"A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends."