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Muriel Spark
(1 Feb 1918 - 13 Apr 2006)
Scottish novelist who is best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), which tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher’s catastrophic effect on her pupils.
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Science Quotes by Muriel Spark (2 quotes)
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.
— Muriel Spark
Dialog by the character Miss Brodie, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961, 2004), 23-24.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.
— Muriel Spark
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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) -- 
