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Paul de Kruif
(2 Mar 1890 - 28 Feb 1971)
American microbiologist and science writer whose popular books include Microbe Hunters (1926), which was translated into 18 languages.
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Science Quotes by Paul de Kruif (1 quote)
[Karl F. Meyer was] the most versatile microbe hunter since Pasteur.
— Paul de Kruif
In 'Champion Among Microbe Hunters', Reader’s Digest (1950), 35–40. As quoted and cited in Mark Honigsbaum, '‘Tipping the Balance’: Karl Friedrich Meyer, Latent Infections,and the Birth of Modern Ideas of Disease Ecology', Journal of the History of Biology (2016), 49, 267.
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) -- 
