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Andre Gide
(22 Nov 1869 - 19 Feb 1951)
French who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1947, and is regarded as a leading contemporary in the French literature of his era. He had certain characteristics in common with his friend, Oscar Wilde. In 1952 Gide’s complete works were added to the Vatican’s Index of Prohibited Books.
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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
— Andre Gide
In The Counterfeiters: A Novel (1951, 2012), 353. As translated by Dorothy Bussy from the original French, “On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage”, in Les Faux Monnayeurs (1925).

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) --
Carl Sagan
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