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Boris Pasternak
(29 Jan 1890 - 30 May 1960)
Russian novelist and poet who was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature for "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition," but was later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize.
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Science Quotes by Boris Pasternak (1 quote)
What is laid down, ordered, factual, is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
— Boris Pasternak
As quoted, without source, in Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience (1981, 2012), xxv.
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) -- 
