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Edgar Rice Burroughs
(1 Sep 1875 - 19 Mar 1950)
American author whose best-known character, Tarzan, appeared in 25 adventures, beginning in 1912, though his first story, Under the Moons of Mars, was a work of science fiction published in a magazine in 1910. He wrote a series of stories in the science fiction genre with the same hero, John Carter, known in book form as A Princess of Mars.
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Science Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1 quote)
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (1917)
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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