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Louis Kronenberger
(9 Dec 1904 - 30 Apr 1980)
American author, literary critic and biographer who was a theatre arts professor at universities including Columbia, Harvard and for many years at Brandeis. He served as the first drama critic for Time magazine (1938-61).
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Science Quotes by Louis Kronenberger (1 quote)
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all—which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty—of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.
— Louis Kronenberger
In Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), 94.
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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