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Robert C. Christopher
(3 Mar 1924 - 14 Jun 1992)
American journalist and editor who was an author and former editor at Time and Newsweek. His books include The Japanese Mind: The Goliath Explained (1983). From 1981, he administered the day-to-day operations of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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Science Quotes by Robert C. Christopher (1 quote)
Cultural anthropology is essentially a descriptive rather than a predictive exercise.
— Robert C. Christopher
In 'Critique: The Unplanned Obsolescence of a Great Book on Japan', Wall Street Journal (31 Jan 1984), Eastern edition, 1.
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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