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Greg Ames
(1971 - )
author and educator who wrote Buffalo Lockjaw (2009), which won the Book of the Year Award for trade paperback original, and Funeral Platter: Stories (2017).
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Science Quotes by Greg Ames (1 quote)
If you’ve got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you’re pissing on the present.
— Greg Ames
Aphorism seen used by various writers, for example, in Buffalo Lockjaw (2009), 276-277. Variants also seen attributed to Michael J. Fox in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future (2010), 96; P.J. Parrish in The Killing Song (2011), 126; and Malachy McCourt. Webmaster has as yet not found a distinct primary source, and believes it may be an aphorism of unknown origin.
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) -- 
