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Albert Camus
(7 Nov 1913 - 1 Apr 1960)
French author, journalist and philosopher who was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote fiction and essays, and was also active in the theater as a producer and playwright. His philosophical writings portrayed absurdism and existentialism.
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Science Quotes by Albert Camus (4 quotes)
I know with sure and certain knowledge that a man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
— Albert Camus
In Lyrical and Critical Essays (1967), 14.
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
— Albert Camus
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Understanding the world for a man is reducing it to the human, stamping it with his seal.
— Albert Camus
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You tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize that you have been reduced to poetry. … So that science that was to teach me everything ends up in a hypothesis, that lucidity founders in metaphor, that uncertainty is resolved in a work of art.
— Albert Camus
In Albert Camus and Justin O’Brien (trans.), 'An Absurd Reasoning', The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1955), 15.
See also:
- The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, by Albert Camus. - book suggestion.
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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