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Christopher Hampton
(26 Jan 1946 - )
British playwright, screenwriter and film director who wrote plays for theater, and translated others for the stage. Hampton was also screenwriter and/or director of over two dozen films. He was born in the Azores, Portugal to British parents.
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Science Quotes by Christopher Hampton (1 quote)
You know very well that unless you are a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
— Christopher Hampton
From the play, The Philanthropist: A Bourgeois Comedy (1970), Scene 2, 17.
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) -- 
