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Earl Derr Biggers
(26 Aug 1884 - 5 Apr 1933)
American novelist and playwright who created Charlie Chan, the fictional Chinese-American detective in his novels from which a number of movies were made.
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Science Quotes by Earl Derr Biggers (1 quote)
Strange events permit themselves the luxury of occurring.
— Earl Derr Biggers
Spoken by fictional character, Charlie Chan, in Behind That Curtain (1928)', 47. The line also appears in the screenplay of the 1929 film adaptation with the same name.
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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