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Sir Frank Kermode
(29 Nov 1919 - 17 Aug 2010)
British literary critic and writer who was prominent in the 1950s and became Britain's foremost literary critic. He is the author of numerous author of numerous works.
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Science Quotes by Sir Frank Kermode (1 quote)
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: “Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d’un biologiste.” There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.
— Sir Frank Kermode
In An Appetite for Poetry (1989), 5.
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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