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Joyce Carol Oates
(16 Jun 1938 - )
American writer whose writings include novels, short stories in periodicals, and poetry. Her work includes "gothic" style horror and haunting tales.
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Science Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates (1 quote)
Nothing is accidental in the universe— this is one of my Laws of Physics—except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
— Joyce Carol Oates
In ‘The Summing Up: Meredith Dawe’, Do What You Will, (1970). As cited in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), 946.
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) -- 
