Veneer Quotes (2 quotes)
Dickens, Twain, and Jack London, each in his own way, tried to do the same thing, it seemed to me: to show that civilization is a veneer and to warn us against accepting, without question, the soothsayers of the past. Each author was saying: Don’t hide behind these façades society has erected; don’t repeat the cliches of the past and at the same time act as savagely as your predecessors did.
Recalling his high school reading of library books. In John Scopes and James Presley, Center of the Storm: Memoirs of John T. Scopes (1967), 20.
Good design is not an applied veneer.
On the official Raymond Loewry website.
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) -- 
