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J. Frank Dobie
(26 Sep 1888 - 18 Sep 1964)
American folklorist, writer and columnist who is remembered as a popularizer of Texas and ranchland folklore. He did not regard himself as a scientific historian, but as a chronicler “of what it was like in past years.”
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Science Quotes by J. Frank Dobie (2 quotes)
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
— J. Frank Dobie
The Voice of the Coyote (1947, 1961), xvi.
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
— J. Frank Dobie
A Texan in England, (1945), 26.
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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