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Baroness Karen Blixen
(17 Apr 1885 - 1962)
Danish writer who also used a pen name, Isak Dinesen. Her description of her life in Kenya, in the book Out of Africa (1937), also became well-known as a movie.
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Science Quotes by Baroness Karen Blixen (2 quotes)
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
— Baroness Karen Blixen
Quoted in Reader's Digest (Apr 1964). In M. P. Singh, Quote Unquote (2007), 94.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
— Baroness Karen Blixen
'The Dreamers', Seven Gothic Tales (1943), 332.
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) -- 
