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Peter De Vries
(27 Feb 1910 - 28 Sep 1993)
American novelist and editor whose work includes a comic and satirical wit.
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Science Quotes by Peter De Vries (2 quotes)
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
— Peter De Vries
The Glory of the Hummingbird (1974), 6. In Bill Swainson, Encarta book of Quotations (2000), 265.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
— Peter De Vries
In Let Me Count the Ways (1965).
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) -- 
