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Clement Attlee
(3 Jan 1883 - 8 Oct 1967)
English Prime Minister.
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Science Quotes by Clement Attlee (1 quote)
He [Winston Churchill] is rather like a layer cake. One layer was certainly seventeenth century. The eighteenth century in him is obvious. There was the nineteenth century, and a large slice, of course, of the twentieth century; and another, curious, layer which may possibly have been the twenty-first.
— Clement Attlee
As quoted in Peter Stansky, Churchill: A Profile (1973), 197.
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) -- 
