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L. P. Hartley
(30 Dec 1895 - 13 Dec 1972)
English novelist whose novel, The Go-Between (1953) was made into a movie in 1971. He was also known as a literary critic, and short story writer. His plots included crime, violence and psychological terror, and sometimes, the supernatural.
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Science Quotes by L. P. Hartley (1 quote)
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
— L. P. Hartley
Opening sentence of Prologue, in The Go-Between (1953), 9.
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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