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Joseph Brodsky
(24 May 1940 - 28 Jan 1996)
Russian poet and essayist who settled in America in 1972 after being exiled from the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Brodsky was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1992).I
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Science Quotes by Joseph Brodsky (2 quotes)
Everything that you read influences you one way or another, imperceptibly or directly or whatever it is, most likely imperceptibly.
— Joseph Brodsky
In 'An Interview between Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz' (Autumn 1989) reprinted in Czesław Miłosz and Cynthia L. Haven (ed.), Czesław Miłosz: Conversations (2006), 106.
Man is what he reads.
— Joseph Brodsky
In essay 'Pendulum’s Song', Less Than One: Selected Essays (1983), 365. The subject of his essay was Constantine Cavafy.
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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