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Lyon Sprague DeCamp
(27 Nov 1907 - 6 Nov 2000)
American writer and biographer whose works include short stories, poems, novels, non-fiction and particularly science fiction.
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Science Quotes by Lyon Sprague DeCamp (1 quote)
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering—that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.
— Lyon Sprague DeCamp
In The Ancient Engineers (1963), 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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