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Evelyn Waugh
(29 Oct 1903 - 10 Apr 1966)
English novelist and journalist whose works include Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Scoop (1938).
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Science Quotes by Evelyn Waugh (5 quotes)
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph [Churchill] that was not malignant and remove it.
— Evelyn Waugh
Comment after Randolph Churchill had a noncancerous lung removed. As quoted in Tuttle Dictionary of Quotations (1989), 70.
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
— Evelyn Waugh
In short story Work Suspended (1943) collected in Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories (1998), 320.
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
— Evelyn Waugh
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March 15th. Imperial Banquet for Welcoming the English Cruelty to Animals. MENU OF FOODS: VITAMIN A, Tin Sardines. VITAMIN B, Roasted Beef. VITAMIN C, Small Roasted Suckling Porks. VITAMIN D, Hot Sheep and Onions. VITAMIN E, Spiced Turkey. VITAMIN F, Sweet Puddings. VITAMIN G, Coffee. VITAMIN H, Jam.
— Evelyn Waugh
In Black Mischief (1932), 1962 edn., 170.
Why, only last term we sent a man who had never been in a laboratory in his life as a senior Science Master to one of our leading public schools. He came [to our agency] wanting to do private coaching in music. He’s doing very well, I believe.
— Evelyn Waugh
In Decline and Fall (1928), 1962 edn., 25.
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.
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