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Henrik Johan Ibsen
(20 Mar 1828 - 23 May 1906)
Norwegian playwright whose well-known works A Doll's House (1879) and Hedda Gabler (1890) depict 19th century women.
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Science Quotes by Henrik Johan Ibsen (4 quotes)
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
— Henrik Johan Ibsen
An Enemy of the People (1882), Act IV. In Ghosts and two Other Plays (1911), 218.
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. … What business has science and capitalism got, bringing ail these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
— Henrik Johan Ibsen
Dialog for Aune, in the play The Pillars of Society, Act 2. Collected in Henrik Ibsen and James Walter McFarlane (ed.), Ibsen: Pillars of society. A Doll’s House. Ghosts (1960), Vol. 5, 52.
If you go out to fight for freedom and truth, you should never wear your best trousers.
— Henrik Johan Ibsen
Dialog for Dr. Stockmann in play, An Enemy of the People (1882, 2001), 102.
Scientists should not be allowed to torture animals to death; let doctors experiment on journalists and politicians.
— Henrik Johan Ibsen
In Dounia B. Christiani (trans., ed.), The Wild Duck (1968), 83. Also seen translated as: “It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
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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