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R.J. Hollingdale
(20 Oct 1930 - 28 Sep 2001)
English biographer and journalist , a self-taught scholar who translated most of Nietzsche's texts, about whom he also wrote a definitive biography, Nietzsche: The Man And His Philosophy (1965). He also translated other classics by German authors. He worked at the Guardian newspaper from 1968 to 1991, where he was a sub-editor.
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Science Quotes by R.J. Hollingdale (2 quotes)
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
— R.J. Hollingdale
In Thomas Mann: a Critical Study (1971), 175.
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.
— R.J. Hollingdale
In Nietzsche: the Man and his Philosophy (1965), 90.
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) -- 
