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Eugène Ionesco
(26 Nov 1912 - 28 Mar 1994)
French playwright whose popular plays protested the dehumanizing effects of modern civilization.
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Science Quotes by Eugène Ionesco (2 quotes)
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
— Eugène Ionesco
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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.
— Eugène Ionesco
‘Interviews: Brief Notes for Radio’, Notes and Counter-Notes: Writings on the Theatre (1964), 136.
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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