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Enrique Jardiel Poncela
(15 Oct 1901 - 18 Feb 1952)
Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote in the Spanish language, mostly humor. The first of his many plays was El príncipe Raudhick (1919). He also authored some short stories and a several novels including Amor se escribe sin hache (1928).
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Science Quotes by Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1 quote)
El pudor es un sólido que sólo se disuelve en alcohol o en dinero
Modesty is a solid which only dissolves in alcohol or money.
Modesty is a solid which only dissolves in alcohol or money.
— Enrique Jardiel Poncela
As given, without citation, in Antología de pensamientos, apotegmas, proverbios, refranes, reflexiones, parábolas y axiomas de hombres célebres (1988), 121.
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) -- 
