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Samuel Beckett
(13 Apr 1906 - 22 Dec 1989)
Irish novelist, playwright and poet who was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. His avant-garde works include the play Waiting for Godot. Its original French version premiered on 5 Jan 1953.
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Science Quotes by Samuel Beckett (2 quotes)
Vladimir: That passed the time.
Esragon: It would have passed in any case.
Esragon: It would have passed in any case.
— Samuel Beckett
From Act 1 of the play, Waiting for Godot. In The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett (1970), Vol. 15, 31.
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Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland—rich and thick.
— Samuel Beckett
As quoted in William Reville, 'The Science of Writing a Good Joke', The Irish Times (5 Jun 2000).
Quotes by others about Samuel Beckett (1)
In 1944 Erwin Schroedinger, stimulated intellectually by Max Delbruck, published a little book called What is life? It was an inspiration to the first of the molecular biologists, and has been, along with Delbruck himself, credited for directing the research during the next decade that solved the mystery of how 'like begat like.' Max was awarded this Prize in 1969, and rejoicing in it, he also lamented that the work for which he was honored before all the peoples of the world was not something which he felt he could share with more than a handful. Samuel Beckett's contributions to literature, being honored at the same time, seemed to Max somehow universally accessible to anyone. But not his. In his lecture here Max imagined his imprisonment in an ivory tower of science.
'The Polymerase Chain Reaction', Nobel Lecture (8 Dec 1993). In Nobel Lectures: Chemistry 1991-1995 (1997), 103.
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.
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