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Edmund Clarence Stedman
(8 Oct 1833 - 18 Jan 1908)
American poet, essayist and critic who editted Victorian Poets (1875), and 11 volumes of Library of American Literature (1888-90).
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Science Quotes by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1 quote)
Science has but one fashion—to lose nothing once gained.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
In chapter 'Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Poet of the Old School', Poets of America (1885), 275. Also in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Feb 1885), 29, New Series Vol. 7, No. 4, 503.
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) -- 
