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Sir Charles Lovatt Evans
(1884 - 1968)
English physiologist.
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Science Quotes by Sir Charles Lovatt Evans (1 quote)
A true anecdote which illustrates his unworldly nature is of the instruction he received in 1922 to appear at Buckingham Palace to receive the accolade of the Order of Knighthood; he replied that as the date coincided with that of a meeting of the Physiological Society, he would be unable to attend.
— Sir Charles Lovatt Evans
Charles Lovatt Evans, Reminiscences of Bayliss and Starling (1964), 3.
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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