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Sir Frank Kermode
(29 Nov 1919 - 17 Aug 2010)
British literary critic and writer who was prominent in the 1950s and became Britain's foremost literary critic. He is the author of numerous author of numerous works.
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Science Quotes by Sir Frank Kermode (1 quote)
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: “Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d’un biologiste.” There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.
— Sir Frank Kermode
In An Appetite for Poetry (1989), 5.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
