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Saul Bellow
(10 Jun 1915 - 5 Apr 2005)
Canadian-American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humbold’s Gift (1975) followed by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.
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Science Quotes by Saul Bellow (1 quote)
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
— Saul Bellow
From More Die of Heartbreak (1987, 1997), 246-247.
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) -- 
