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William O(rville) Douglas
(16 Oct 1898 - 19 Jan 1980)
American judge whose term of over 36 years as a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (1939-75) remains the longest.
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Science Quotes by William O(rville) Douglas (2 quotes)
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few…. This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
— William O(rville) Douglas
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The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets. Patents serve a higher end—the advance of science.
— William O(rville) Douglas
Concurring in Great A. & P. Teas Co.. V. Supermarket Equip. Corp. 340 U.S. 147, 155 (1950). In Eugene C. Gerhart, Quote it Completely! (1998), 802.
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) -- 
