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Gilbert Adair
(29 Dec 1944 - 8 Dec 2011)
Scottish novelist whose first novel Alice through the Needle’s Eye was intended to be a tribute and sequel to Lewis Carroll’s stories.
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Science Quotes by Gilbert Adair (1 quote)
We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
— Gilbert Adair
In 'Under the Sign of Cancer', Myths and Memories (1986), 152.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
