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David Rains Wallace
(10 Aug 1945 - )
American naturalist and author whose over sixteen books are about natural history and conservation, and include Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution and The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution.
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Science Quotes by David Rains Wallace (1 quote)
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
— David Rains Wallace
In The Dark Range: a Naturalist's Night Notebook (1978), 113.
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) -- 
