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David Lloyd George
(17 Jan 1863 - 26 Mar 1945)
Welsh Prime Minister who was the only Welshman to have become Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Science Quotes by David Lloyd George (1 quote)
We cannot feed the hungry with statistics of national prosperity.
— David Lloyd George
Speech in the House of Commons (6 Jan 1904). Quoted in epigraph, Montagu de Pomeroy Webb and Edward FitzGerald Law, India and the Empire: A Consideration of the Tariff Problem (1908), 36. [This has been misattributed (?) to Heinrich Heine, as the variant, “You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”]
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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