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Maurice Maeterlinck
(29 Aug 1862 - 6 May 1949)
Belgian playwright and poet who was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Science Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck (1 quote)
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Our Eternity, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1913), 24.
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.
(1987) -- 
