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Science Quotes by African Proverb (3 quotes)
Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia.
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
— African Proverb
(Swahili) Quoted in 'Enclosure No. 11, German East Africa: The Administrator to the Secretary of State' (22 Mar 1918), Correspondence Relating to the Wishes of the Natives of the German Colonies as to their Future Government (Nov 1918), 25. Collected in Great Britain Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons (12 Feb 1918 - 21 Nov 1918). The context for the proverb is hardship on the natives from the local effects of the war fought between the Germans and the British forces.
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
— African Proverb
Ashanti proverb, on web page 'African Proverb Wisdom', citing a book by Charlotte & Wolf Leslau.
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
— African Proverb
Nigerian proverb Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Book of World Proverbs (2006), 226.
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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