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René Daumal
(16 Mar 1908 - 21 May 1944)
French poet and critic who published avant-garde poetry beginning in his late teens. He died at an early age of tuberculosis, having risked his health by experimenting with pyschoactive chemicals and drugs.
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Science Quotes by René Daumal (1 quote)
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
— René Daumal
'The Lie of the Truth'. (1938) translated by Phil Powrie (1989). In Carol A. Dingle, Memorable Quotations (2000), 61.
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) -- 
