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Owen Barfield
(9 Nov 1898 - 14 Dec 1997)
English philosopher, author and poet who wrote works on the nature of language, myth, perception and the evolution of human consciousness. His classic book, Saving the Appearances contained a summary of his philosophical framework as expressed in his other essays and articles. It represents perhaps the first serious examination of what’s now called a paradigm shift.
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Science Quotes by Owen Barfield (2 quotes)
In … the production of a rainbow … the eye plays a no less indispensable part than the sunlight.
— Owen Barfield
In Saving the Appearances (1957), 22.
There may be times when what is most needed is, not so much a new discovery or a new idea as a different “slant”; I mean a comparatively slight readjustment in our way of looking at the things and ideas on which attention is already fixed.
— Owen Barfield
In Saving the Appearances (1957), 11.
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) -- 
