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Zora Neale Hurston
(7 Jan 1891 - 28 Jan 1960)
American anthropologist, writer and folklorist who is one of the leading writers of African-American literature in the 20th century. She studyied anthropology with Franz Boas. She collected and published three volumes of folk tales. Her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road was published in 1942.
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Science Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston (1 quote)
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Hemenway, Dust Tracks on a Road: an Autobiography (1942, 1984), 182.
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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