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Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand
(4 Sep 1768 - 4 Jul 1848)
author and politician who was a leading writers of 19th-century French literature and accounts of his travels, especially to the Middle East.
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Science Quotes by Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand (1 quote)
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
— Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand
F.A. de Chateaubriand and Frederic Shoberl (trans.) The Beauties of Christianity (1813), Vol. 1, 251.
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) -- 
