The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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| Birth: | 9th May, 1883 |
| Death: | 18th October, 1955 |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Profession: | Essayist, Philosopher |
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