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Booth Tarkington
(29 Jul 1869 - 19 May 1946)
American novelist and playwright who twice won a Pulitzer Prize (1919, 1920). He was a prolific writer of novels and several successful Broadway plays.
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Science Quotes by Booth Tarkington (2 quotes)
“I’m not so sure he’s wrong about automobiles,” he said, “With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization—that is, spiritual civilization … But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.”
— Booth Tarkington
Spoken by character Eugene, in the novel, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), 275
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
— Booth Tarkington
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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) -- 
